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Crime & Punishment

A student murders, theorises, and cannot outrun his own conscience.

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After committing murder, an impoverished student struggles with guilt and the theories he used to justify his actions. Dostoyevsky explores conscience, responsibility, and the possibility of redemption.

F By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Raskolnikov, a former student living in a St Petersburg garret, convinces himself that an extraordinary man may step over an ordinary moral law if the result serves a greater end. He kills a pawnbroker to test the theory. The rest of the novel is what the theory does to him.

Dostoyevsky turns a crime story into an interrogation of conscience, with the detective Porfiry circling patiently and Sonya offering a way back that Raskolnikov spends hundreds of pages refusing.

1. How Raskolnikov builds a theory that exempts the extraordinary man, and where the argument breaks under him.
2. Why guilt in this novel is a physical illness before it is ever a confession.
3. How Porfiry investigates by conversation rather than evidence, and why that pressure works.
4. What Sonya represents as an alternative to self-justification, and why Raskolnikov resists it so long.
5. The role of poverty and the St Petersburg setting in making the crime feel almost reasonable.
6. Why the confession arrives when it does, and what Dostoyevsky withholds from the epilogue.

Book details

Author

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Publisher

Lexicon Publishing

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Additional information

SKU

TL-TD286VNZ

Category

Fiction