Name: Crime e Castigo / Crime and Punishment(Eng Translation)
By Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
Genre: Psychological account of a Crime and Criminal
Story Outline: Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished St. Petersburg student who formulates and executes a plan to kill a hated, unscrupulous pawnbroker seemingly for her money, thereby solving his financial problems and at the same time, he argues, ridding the world of evil. The novel portrays the murder of a miserly, aged pawnbroker and her younger sister by a destitute Saint Petersburg student named Raskolnikov, and the emotional, mental, and physical effects that follow. Raskolnikov also strives to be an extraordinary being, similar to Napoleon, who can murder without repercussions (does he succeed? Well U have to read the book to find out).
Why do you recommend it: bcoz I haven't read another novel so earthy, so subtle and so simply eccetrically human. Dostoevsky's insight into Human Mind remains unparalleled to this day. Its the greatest piece of art I have read.
In the novel, just when the "punishment" seemingly may start lawfully, for Raskolnikov, he has been thru his Punishment already.
NOTE: This is not a simple fun pass time read. Its a heavy subject and obviously a Heavy read and u gotta take reading seriously for this. So read it if u are prepared to becum upset!😉😉😆
PS: If can sit thru the first 3 chapters, then u know where r interests are going to lie from now on!😉
Other comment: Read it to understand what and why I say all this...Believe me, This novel does things to u!
Rating(scale of 1-5, 5 being the best): beyond rating and judgement. But I count it as the greatest novel I have read in my life for I cannot think of another book which affected and intrigued me so profoundly as this masterpiece by the greatest giant in World Literature(acc to me)....
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