A review by grisostomo_de_las_ovejas
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

5.0

Crime and Punishment runs 600 pages, but the main story lasts only three or four days. It’s a fever dream where time is distorted, everything (but God) is wrapped in ontological questions, and the truth is unclear. In its haziness and distortion, the book laughs at the futility and misguidedness of rationality but offers the prospect of a light to cut through the fog. Having read the book, I’m not sold on its “light” or message, but I am sold on its worth as a piece of literature. Its characters are flawed and pockmarked, but they’re scarred in a beautifully realistic way just as we all are. Even if I can’t accept the book’s themes, I’ve found I do accept some of its observations on the contradictions of the human condition. So, thanks Old Man Dostoevsky. You’ve given me some good thinks.