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A review by onceuponatime
Crime and Punishment (Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction by Nathan B. Fagin) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
dark
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Raskolnikov's mental state, anxiousness and idea of greatness are quite interesting.
He in the end rejects it because he failed to murder and rob without questioning himself and with connecting it to a greatness in his future that would justify it so he had no right to take such a step in the first place. I think the epilogue with his dream of a disease which makes people believe in their theories as true which cause in some way an armagedon and "life replacing theory" are amusing.
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Even though the book is really long, while reading along to an audio book, I wasn't bored.
He in the end rejects it because he failed to murder and rob without questioning himself and with connecting it to a greatness in his future that would justify it so he had no right to take such a step in the first place. I think the epilogue with his dream of a disease which makes people believe in their theories as true which cause in some way an armagedon and "life replacing theory" are amusing.
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Even though the book is really long, while reading along to an audio book, I wasn't bored.
Content Warnings
Minor: Antisemitism