Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
World Book Club
The Most Interesting Characters of Dastoevsky
You can find illusion in every novel of dastoevsky. He absolutely hates this type of human personality. At the same time, we have some very interesting characters in this novels who are neither white nor black. We mention svidrigailov already, who is who looks so modern,. In the middle of nineteenth century, when literature described a villain, he tended to be mostly black without any white spots. While svidrigayov is controversial, he is interesting, and he is changing before our eyes. Another son, which is very interesting, is the investigator porfyry with his cat like quite ominous manner.
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