Name: Преступление и наказание
ISBN: 9785911816513

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Преступление и наказание

Jokude

Vitali Avagyan

** spoiler alert **
           Utterly disappointed! I was longing to read this book for a very long time.

There a few interesting parts in this book (especially on investigation methods and psychology behind it -- hence rating of 3), yet it is an obsolete piece for the 21st century.

A few more things to point out why I disliked the book:

1. The language is slightly old which makes it harder to read in Russian! Not sure about translated versions.

2. Thoughts and dialogues are sometimes illogical to me! I can't imagine people conversing with each other the way it is described in it.

3. No idea why some characters exist! The novel could have been much shorter.

4. There are some hints on the societal moral discounting and progressive thinking of youth with no clear sign where the author stands on them. However, I might be wrong on this -- that's how it seemed to me while reading.

5. Now the spoiler: 
The whole idea is centred about a guy who thinks he should kill people if he wants to become the next Napoleon, i.e. a notable person to be recognised in history. But to test this, he needs to pass an exercise that evolves around the fact whether he is capable of withstanding the "after-kill" "state of mind" and whether he is able then overcome it. Eventually, after killing two people, it turns out (or, I would rather say, he finds out) that he can't bear that "state of mind", so as a result he confesses to the police and is sent to Siberia for labour.

I know there are many analyses on this book and presumably the interpretations are different. However, I haven't read any of them, so all ideas and impressions are mine.

Это одно из "краеугольных" произведений русской и мировой литературы, включенный во все школьные программы. Достоевский предстал перед читателем грандиозным художественно-философским исследователем человеческой природы и христианской трагедии

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