Crime and Punishment
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As you should know Tuesdays is book blog day were we talk about one particular book and pretty much run with it. Today's blog is on the book Crime and Punishment by Fydor Dostoevsky.
Raskolnikov, a destitute and former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his ken. Only Sonya, a downtrodden sex worker can offer the chance of redemption.
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Crime and Punishment was first published in the Literary Journal The Russian Messenger in 12 monthly instalments during 1866 and was later published as a single volume. The book was the second of Dostoevksy's books written after his Siberian exile and considered the first great novel of his “Mature period” of writing. Crime and Punishment is often cited as one of the supreme achievements in modern literature.
Crime and Punishment is one of those books I've struggled to read, now don't get me wrong its a good piece of fiction about a desire to free ones self from problems and strife but failing by gaining trouble and strife of a different kind. No doubt that the writer Dostoevsky was using what he could understand what was happening in the world around him especially what was happening in Russia at the time with the rise of what became Russian Nihilism and used his writings to articulate arguments against westernising ideas and attacking a Russian blend of French utopian socialism and Benthamite utilitarianism which eventually became rational egoism which was developed but revolutionary figures such as Nikolai Chernyshevsky. Such discussions like this go over my head like a moth to flame but what I have read of the novel is good and I give that a 5/10.
Born in Moscow in 1821, Dostoevksy was introduced to literature via fairytales and legends and several books by Russian and foreign authors at a very early age. In 1837, Dostoevksy left school to attend the Nikolayev Military Engineering Institute at 15 around the time his mother died. After graduation, Dostoevksy worked as an engineer, translating books for extra money and briefly enjoyed a lavish lifestyle. His first novel Poor Folk written and released around the mid 1840's this gave Dostoevksy entry into the literary circles of Saint Petersburg. Dostoevksy was later arrested for being part of a group that discussed banned books that criticised Tsarist Russia, his death sentence was commuted at the last moment he spent ten years a prisoner, four in Siberian prison and six as an exiled military officer. In the following years Dostoevksy ended up working as a journalist with several magazines being published and edited, later publishing A Writers Diary which was a collection of his writings. He began travelling around western Europe, having to beg for money at one time due to Gambling and financial hardship. However this didn't stop him from becoming one of Russia's most widely read and highly regarded writers.
On February 6th 1881 the Tsars secret police knocked on the door of one of Dostoevksy's neighbours in their search for the terrorist organisation Narodnaya Volya who would later assassinate Tsar Alexander 2nd, on the 7th Dostoevksy suffered a Pulmonary haemorrhage his second wife Anna denied the previous days antics caused it and blamed the retrieval of a dropped pen holder. Two more haemorrhages had Dostoevksy on his deathbed, passing away after he saw his children and requesting The Parable of the Prodigal Son be read to them.
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