Book Review of Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Name of book: Crime and Punishment Author Name: Fyodor Dostoevsky ISBN: 0-451-52723-2 Publisher: Signet Type of book: Adult, psychology, punishment, crime, Russia, 1860s Year it was published: 1864-1866 (Version I have 1968) Summary: One of the world's greatest novels, Crime and Punishment is the story of a murder and its consequences- a tale of suspense withotu equal, set in the midst of nineteenth-century Russia's troubled transition to the modern age. The novel's young protagonist, Raskolnikov, is a sensitive intellectual driven by poverty to bellieve he is exempt from moral law. In this brilliant translation by noted scholar and literary critic Sidney Monas, we are privy to the supreme expression of an author who "explored pathological states and the psychology of high tension, the realm of 'obsession' and 'possession,' because it was there one could most clearly and dramatically see the human consequences of an idea carried ruth...