Crime and punishment

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Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and punishment (1993, Alfred A. Knopf)

564 pages

Langue : English

Publié 16 septembre 1993 par Alfred A. Knopf.

ISBN :
978-0-679-42029-3
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Numéro OCLC :
27188192

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Crime and Punishment (Russian: Преступлéние и наказáние, tr. Prestupleniye i nakazaniye; IPA: [prʲɪstʊˈplʲenʲə ɪ nəkɐˈzanʲə]) is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866.[1] It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoyevsky'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.[2]

Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash. Raskolnikov argues that with the pawnbroker's money he can perform good deeds to counterbalance the crime, while ridding the world of a worthless vermin. He also commits this murder to test his …

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J'avais déjà commencé à lire ce roman l'année dernière ou la précédente, mais je n'étais pas parvenu à aller bien loin. Cette fois, j'ai persévéré et je ne le regrette pas. Même si l'auteur a parfois tendance à ouvrir de longues parenthèses dans le récit, l'ensemble est finalement plaisant à suivre et passionnant.