🇬🇧 Hey! Hope everything is going well for you. Today I'm here with a classic from Russian Literature.
Check out my last review about The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides.
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Today's review will be about the book Crime and Punishment, by the Russian author Fedor Dostoevskij.
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The book was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866 and later published as a single volume. It is his second full-length novel and it's considered the first great novel of his mature period of writing, considered as one of the supreme achievements in world literature.
The story follows the mental struggle and moral issues of Rodiòn Raskoln'ikov, and impoverished ex-student in Saint Petersburg, who is planning to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker, an old woman who stores money and valuable things in her flat.
He theorises that with that amount of money he could free himself from poverty, from the struggles he finds himself in and perform good deeds with it. He convinces himself that those kind of crimes are justifiable if they are committed for removing obstacles to reach the higher goals of "extraordinary" men.
He imagines himself being one of those great men, a Napoleon, but he soon embarks a game of cat and mouse that is way more dangerous that he thought it would be. Followed by a suspicious police investigator, Rodiòn is pursued by his conscience and buried under his own guilt. Only Sonja, a downtrodden sex worker, can offer the chance of redemption.
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I liked it way more than I thought I would have.
It went really smoothly and I'm glad that it didn't end as badly as I was imagining it would have had. I felt glad for the final because now a new life will begin for Raskoln'ikov.
It's a 5/5, recommended (:

