Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
Published in 1866, Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest novels of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Rodion Raskolnikov, a poor student in Saint Petersburg, commits a double murder believing that he is defending an abstract idea. Far more than a psychological thriller, the book explores guilt, nihilism, and the chance of a spiritual rebirth.
Dostoyevsky does not simply tell the story of a crime. He turns it into a laboratory where an intellectual theory smashes into the reality of a human conscience. The novel asks a question that still burns: can you kill in the name of a higher idea?
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- 2The author at the edge: life and context
- 3The temptation of the superman: Raskolnikov's theory
- 4The punishment: a psychological torture
- 5Resurrection, and the legacy of a total novel
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