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Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment-Fyodor Dostoevsky
TW: Death, homicide.
Set in 19th Century Russia, Crime and Punishment is magnum opus of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Some even dubbed it early psychological fiction and I was pretty skeptic, it was produced in 1860s, so how good can it be?
Boy I was wrong.Let me back up a bit and tells the short summary, to literally pull people into this universe.
This story follows Raskolnikov, a man that is so poor he pawned everything that can be removed from his body. I'm talking valuable stuff, not gross stuff. He was then so desperate due to poverty, and decided to kill her pawn broker, the holier-than-thou Alyona Ivanovna using an axe. In panic, he also killed the pawnbroker's sister, who literally at the wrong place on the wrong time. He struck her with an axe, but he himslef stuck his heart with guilt, like any normal people did after they killed another people.He then met Marmeladov, whose telling stories and his hardships, and the next day he heard the man died after being hit by a horse. He then gave all the money he stole to Marmeladov's widow.
Raskolnikov felt sick but met the police anyway after being summoned, and he was met with Porfiry Petrovich, a cynical detective who suspected Raskolnikov from the get go. Raskolnikov can smell the suspicion and he later confessed to Sonya Marmeladova, Marmeladov's daughter. She persuade him to confess and even to the point promised him to follow to prison camp. With Razumikhin is there to take care of his family, he finally confessed, and received his time.
A lot of issues discussed in this book, but i'm going to highlight a few key moral: sometimes poverty is so bad, it shook your whole beliefs. Sonya became a prostitute just to put food on table, and yet she have the purest intention.
The way FD describes the tension, the suspense really set the mood. And the language, oh my god. You will enjoy every page and reference.
TW: Death, homicide.
Set in 19th Century Russia, Crime and Punishment is magnum opus of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Some even dubbed it early psychological fiction and I was pretty skeptic, it was produced in 1860s, so how good can it be?
Boy I was wrong.Let me back up a bit and tells the short summary, to literally pull people into this universe.
This story follows Raskolnikov, a man that is so poor he pawned everything that can be removed from his body. I'm talking valuable stuff, not gross stuff. He was then so desperate due to poverty, and decided to kill her pawn broker, the holier-than-thou Alyona Ivanovna using an axe. In panic, he also killed the pawnbroker's sister, who literally at the wrong place on the wrong time. He struck her with an axe, but he himslef stuck his heart with guilt, like any normal people did after they killed another people.He then met Marmeladov, whose telling stories and his hardships, and the next day he heard the man died after being hit by a horse. He then gave all the money he stole to Marmeladov's widow.
Raskolnikov felt sick but met the police anyway after being summoned, and he was met with Porfiry Petrovich, a cynical detective who suspected Raskolnikov from the get go. Raskolnikov can smell the suspicion and he later confessed to Sonya Marmeladova, Marmeladov's daughter. She persuade him to confess and even to the point promised him to follow to prison camp. With Razumikhin is there to take care of his family, he finally confessed, and received his time.
A lot of issues discussed in this book, but i'm going to highlight a few key moral: sometimes poverty is so bad, it shook your whole beliefs. Sonya became a prostitute just to put food on table, and yet she have the purest intention.
The way FD describes the tension, the suspense really set the mood. And the language, oh my god. You will enjoy every page and reference.