Celebrating Dostoevsky’s 200th Birthday – The New York Times

In his late 20s, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was arrested for reading banned books. A death sentence was commuted at the last moment and instead he was exiled for four years in a Siberian prison camp called Katorga. “The unbearable intimacy of summer; “The unbearable cold of winter,” he wrote. “The dirt on the floors is an …