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Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Dostoevsky's Love for Suffering

Devin wel, thekranian novelist, believes that crime and punishment is at least one rather important reason for why russians enjoy suffering so much. I appreciate dostoevsky as one of russian genius in literature, but i also have some grudges against him. He is one of the writers who, acto, was spreading depression among the intellectuals. If something goes wrong, it's the biggest misery in the world. And if you feel about your misery this way, there is probably a certain dostoovskya pleasure in it. Would boris and sarah agree that crime continues to resonate with us because it strips away the hypocritical mask behind which

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