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Ep 33 - Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky)

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Svidry Glailov - I'm Going to America

Svidry Glailov, after many fever dreams in which his past comes back to haunt him, he says I'm going to America. He takes a gun from an offer some blows his head out in public and what's the juxtaposition there with Raskolnikov's redemption? The narod who have composed is they are interwoven within the tapestry of crime and punishment. It could just be there for artistic effect to create a sort of religious, panellistic painting and narrative or it could be there because it demonstrates in a pre-Freudian way what Freud would go on to say about civilization and its discontent.

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