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Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Great Russian Novelist and Proto-Existentialist

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Isn't It Napoleon?

In crime and punishment, the character is going to create u he's going to be a great man like napoleon, remake society. But it's all justified retroactively through his greatness. Because napoleon remade europe, so yet he was justified in killing all people. And that's te question, how do you know you're napoleon? Or maybe for a socialist, how doYou know you're not just an assal?

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