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The timeline of the main House of the Dead series spans 139 years. Chronologically, it begins with the events preceding The House of the Dead, and ends with The House of the Dead III. All information herein is sourced from in-game events, character dialogue, and excerpts from manuals and guidebooks. Spin-off titles, including The House of the ...
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Janáček worked on several stories from the voluminous novel in which Dostoyevsky described his experiences in prison. No single plot line goes through the opera, instead it is a kind of mosaic made up from the stories of the individual prisoners, linked by one idea - the desire for freedom.
Background. After his mock execution on 22 December 1849, Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years imprisonment in a katorga labor camp at Omsk in western Siberia. Though he often was met with hostility from the other prisoners due to his noble status of dvoryanin, his views on life changed.
Synopsis. Act 1. A Siberian prison camp on a winter morning. The prisoners get up, two get into a dispute, as the rumour is spread that a nobleman will be the new arrival ("Přivednou dnes pána"). He is Alexandr Petrovitch Goryantchikov, a political prisoner. The prison governor interrogates him and orders him to be flogged ("Jak tě nazývají").
His father, an old man of sixty, tried to influence and restrain him; but the father had a house, a small estate, and, it was suspected, money, and the son killed the father, through greed for his inheritance.
Critical Context. Though not exemplifying the “fantastic realism” of his more famous later novels, The House of the Dead anticipates strongly Zapiski iz podpolya (1864; Notes from the ...
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