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He began writing in his 20s, and his first novel, Poor Folk, was published in 1846 when he was 25. His major works include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1872) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). His output consists of 11 novels, three novellas, 17 short novels and numerous other works.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment was written by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It is the tour de force that presents the post-reform Russia through the character of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov. The novel first started appearing in series in The Russian Messenger, a literary journal, during the year 1866 and impacted many readers.
Overview. Crime and Punishment is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in 1866. The story charts the alienation of a student named Raskolnikov, who decides to commit the perfect crime as a way of philosophically proving his superiority over others.
Raskolnikov commits the great crime of the novel: he robs and murders the pawnbroker and her sister Lizaveta, an innocent bystander. Raskolnikov must come to terms with his feeling, or lack of feeling, of remorse for the act, and his motive is never fully resolved. He argues that the pawnbroker did no good for society and therefore her death is ...
Dewey Decimal. 891.73/3 20. LC Class. PG3326 .P7 1993. Crime and Punishment [1] is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was the first great novel of his mature period. [2] [3] It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in 12 monthly series in 1866. [4] It was later published in a single volume.
Book Summary. Raskolnikov, an impoverished student, conceives of himself as being an extraordinary young man and then formulates a theory whereby the extraordinary men of the world have a right to commit any crime if they have something of worth to offer humanity. To prove his theory, he murders an old, despicable pawnbroker and her half-sister ...
Crime and Punishment is told from a third-person omniscient perspective. The narrator is "all knowing" about the thoughts and feelings of any character in the novel. The narration allows readers to immerse themselves in the psychology of each of Dostoevsky's characters, much as his main character, Raskolnikov, tends to do.
