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Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

World Book Club

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Is Boris Akunen a Russian Author?

Boris akunen writes detective novels. Could translators avoid the use of more than one name for a character to stop confusing us english? Andrea shene, professor of russian at queen mary university of london asks what dostoyevski was trying to achieve in reversing the jram of the detective story.

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