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ENGLISH
Language530
Pages9780192815491
ISBN2 mm
Width11 mm
Height18 gram
WeightWORLDS
EditionPAPERBACK
Binding18 SEPTEMBER 1980
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Crime and Punishment is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes by his action to set himself outside and above society. A novel of fearful tension, physical and psychological--will Raskolnikov be trapped in the upstairs room holding the bloody axe?--will his image of himself as a superman crack under the pressure of the law and of his own conscience?--it is pervaded by Dostoevsky's sinister evocation of St Petersburg, yet the life of its gloomy tenements and drink-shops provides moments of wild humour.
Crime and Punishment was marked by Dostoevsky's own harrowing experiences. He had himself as a young man undergone interrogation and trial, and was condemned to death, a sentence commuted to penal servitude. In prison he was particularly impressed by one hardened murderer who seemed to have attained a spiritual equilibrium beyond good and evil: yet witnessing the misery of other convicts engendered in Dostoevsky a belief in the Christian idea of salvation through suffering, embodied in Crime and Punishment in the figure of Sonya, the 'pure prostitute' whom Raskolnikov befriends.
'I wanted to make myself a Napoleon,' states Raskolnikov, 'and that is why I killed her.'Crime and Punishment is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes by his action to set himself outside and above society. A novel of fearful tension, physical and psychological--will Raskolnikov be trapped in the upstairs room holding the bloody axe?--will his image of himself as a superman crack under the pressure of the law and of his own conscience?--it is pervaded by Dostoevsky's sinister evocation of St Petersburg, yet the life of its gloomy tenements and drink-shops provides moments... Read More