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Crime and Punishment
He commits the murder in the first hundred pages. The rest of the novel is the punishment. Dostoevsky understood the mind like no one else.
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The Weight of a Crime
Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1866 novel follows Raskolnikov, a destitute student in St. Petersburg who murders a pawnbroker to prove his theory that extraordinary men are above conventional morality. What follows is a psychological collapse of extraordinary intensity as guilt, paranoia, and the inescapable conscience tear him apart. Detective Porfiry circles, a saint-like prostitute named Sonya offers redemption, and Russia itself feels like a pressure chamber. First published in serial form in The Russian Messenger, it remains the definitive novel of guilt.


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Reading Crime and Punishment
3 Feverish
5 Nauseating
4 Paranoid
4 Tender
5 Breaking
3 Quiet

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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.


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Dostoevsky wrote Crime and Punishment under crushing financial pressure while also writing The Gambler simultaneously on two separate deadlines. He dictated The Gambler to a stenographer named Anna Snitkina, whom he later married.
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The novel was written just after Dostoevsky returned from ten years in Siberia for political dissent. His experience of imprisonment and redemption shaped every page of Raskolnikov's story.


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