Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
World Book Club
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Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment
Svidrigailo most complicated character in the novel. He is that kind of nihilistic other side of raskolnikov, the murderer side. Deborah martinson also sees Svitrigailov as a kind of mirror image of raskolnikov. We've got a guy who is a murderer and a saviour. Do you think that crime and punishment doesn't have any simply good or bad characters? Well, maybe, actually on a very similar subject, because efgeni is asking, are there for dostoyevsky, no purely good or bad people? There are quite a lot of them this novel too, because sone is an angel
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