Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett
eBook
(Kathartika, Feb. 6, 2017)
The book includes more than 45 illustrations.“Crime and Punishment” (pre-reform Russian: Преступленiе и наказанiе, Prestupleniye i nakazaniye; post-reform Russian: Преступление и наказание, Prestupleniye i nakazaniye) is probably the most famous novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, first published in 1866.The sophisticated detective-like plot of the work is based on a story of a murder committed by the protagonist. He is a young man of an extremely poor family who is renting a dark gloomy room for which he has no money to pay, his name is Rodion Raskolnikov.His poverty and the conversation he hears in a bar lead him to committing an awful crime. He murders an old woman for a ridiculous sum of money and is shocked by the crime so much that can’t even take his plunder.These events affect his mind in a most sinister way, making him face the most important philosophical questions and find his own answer to them. On his way to the universal truth he meets people of all kinds, mostly miserable ones, and their stories get interwoven with his. The book offers you some food for thought:-“He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough.”-“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”-“The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”The translation by Constance Garnett conveys the original meaning in brilliant detail.