Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
World Book Club
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Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment
Crime and punishment paints a vivid picture of a society where material struggles are crushing all the possible virtues in people. Would you call it a political novel? Boris acunin er, no, i wouldn't, because i think that dstoyevsky was interested not so much in social problems, but in existential problems. And if we read the epilogue of crime and punishment, there is this famous little description of raskolnikov's nightmare - his dream when he dreams that mankind was infested by mysterious mikrops.
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