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Started reading it to become able to say that I've read Crime and Punishment, now I can say I dropped Crime and Punishment half-way through
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Moderate: Alcoholism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Classism
Minor: Confinement, Vomit, Stalking, Abandonment
Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Child abuse, Classism
Minor: Xenophobia, Antisemitism
Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Violence, Medical content, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Antisemitism, Suicide attempt, Classism
Minor: Adult/minor relationship
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Violence
Dostoievsky sits with the absolute greatest of the Letters, and his Novels stand on pedestals. The pedestal of a trophy. The pedestal of a monument.
On the contrary, the knowledge of its importance was the driving excitement behind it. By reading it I felt to be swimming in the River of History, and swimming along the greatest minds, allowing myself to be passed the same Fire.
And it is Fire. One can feel the pages bursting through centuries of old form, as the thoughts of its characters are splattered into the pages like the splatter of an axe-murder and the crumbling of a thousand year dinasty, and the underground rumblings of a still far-off revolutions.
Reading the two Russians shakes the soul. What Tolstoy does in landscape strokes, Dostoievsky does in VanGogh-like manic splatters of thought.
And it is a perfect and complete novel, in the sense that it is absolutely closed and tied down. It does not have moments, but its full force only arrives at the very last word. And it makes the body tremble.
Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Antisemitism, Stalking, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis
if svidrigailov has no haters, i’m dead
Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Antisemitism, Murder
Moderate: Suicide
Opening with a bloody murder is a bold move, and watching the murderer struggle on the brink of madness for however many pages (a lot) was quite the journey.
My favorite characters where the two young women, Dunya and Sonya, along with Razumikhin (the murderer's BFF). They reflect all that is good in the world, while still carrying human flaws.
The main character (and murderer), Raskolnikov, was complex and interesting, and entirely unlikeable. And frankly, his "punishment" was pretty unsatisfying, and the ending was far softer than I thought it would be.
I did listen on audio to the unabridged version, and the narrator was amazing.
Graphic: Mental illness, Murder
Moderate: Child abuse, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Mental illness
Moderate: Murder
Graphic: Death, Blood, Murder
Moderate: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Suicide, Dementia
Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Murder
Moderate: Alcoholism