Crime and Punishment
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A great book. First published AD 1866, written in Russian
Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866. It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels following his return from ten years of exile in Siberia. Crime and Punishment is considered the first great novel of his mature period of writing and is often cited as one of the greatest works of world literature.
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Notes from UndergroundGreat book
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, AD 1864
The Underground Man rails against reason and utility; Crime and Punishment puts the argument to the test. Raskolnikov acts on a theory, that an extraordinary man may kill for the general good, and the novel follows what it does to him.
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“In the novel, Dostoevsky pinpointed the dangers of both utilitarianism and rationalism, the main ideas of which inspired the radicals, continuing a fierce criticism he had already started with his Notes from Underground.”
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