Crime and Punishment is Fyodor Dostoevsky's psychological novel about Raskolnikov, a poor former student in St. Petersburg whose theory of extraordinary individuals leads him toward murder and spiritual collapse. The book follows guilt as it becomes physical, intellectual, and social, drawing together poverty, pride, police pressure, compassion, and the possibility of confession. Dostoevsky makes thought itself feel dangerous.
Readers of Russian literature and moral fiction will find Crime and Punishment gripping because its suspense is inward as well as criminal. Fyodor Dostoevsky turns a murder plot into an inquiry into conscience, suffering, and redemption. The novel's force comes from watching an idea fail inside a living human being. Its punishment begins before the law arrives.
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