a question about Dostoevsky and prisons

[Alina Israeli]

No, it's not in the Diary either. Yet there are many people who quote  
the phrase as Sasha did:

Женщины за колючей проволокой - это  
nonsense, но это и реальность, которую  
нужно изучать и как-то  
совершенствовать, добиваясь  
гуманности и справедливости. Пусть  
глубочайший смысл знаменитой фразы  
Ф.М.Достоевского "По состоянию тюрем  
можно судить о состоянии общества",  
проникнет в сознание всех, кто, так или  
иначе, причастен к судьбе женщин, отбывающих нака 
зание. (http://www.owl.ru/library/042t.htm)

I suspect that it's a summary, just like "Аннушка уже  
разлила / пролила масло" — a phrase that does not  
appear in exactly that way in the text.

Alina


On Dec 16, 2012, at 11:59 AM, David Powelstock wrote:

> I searched the text of the Garnett translation available on Amazon  
> and couldn't find the English version mentioned in Yale Quotations  
> there, either. Assuming FD really is the source, I wonder if this  
> isn't something from his journalistic writings, maybe Diary of a  
> Writer.
>
> Cheers,
> David P.
>
>  * * * * * * * * * *
> David Powelstock
> Assoc. Prof. of Russian and Comparative Literature
> Chair, Comparative Literature
> Brandeis University
> Waltham, MA 02453
>


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