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Summary of Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

8 pages
English
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eBook - ePub

Summary of Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

About this book

Could you commit the perfect crime? Is there such a thing as a "just murder" that costs the life of one person but benefits many others? Can rational considerations silence the human conscience? Fyodor Dostoevsky investigates these questions in his classic novel Crime and Punishment. The best-known work of this Russian author masterfully depicts the destitute student Raskolnikov'smurder of an old pawnbroker and his subsequent agony of conscience. Raskolnikov considers himself a kind of superman, compares himself withNapoleon and tries to justify his actions with rational arguments. But after the murder, he slides into a slow, gnawing despair. The virtuous prostitute Sonja finally persuades him to admit his guilt and start a new life. Dostoevsky, committed to Russian realism, describes the social misery on the streets of St. Petersburg. Ineasy to understandbut gripping language, he succeeded in writing not only one of the greatest crime novels of all timeas well as an intriguingpsychoanalysis that illuminates the abysses of a murderer's soul.

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