Dostoevsky Crime & Punishment

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Dostoevsky Crime & Punishment (1964, W W Norton & Co Ltd)

Published April 1, 1964 by W W Norton & Co Ltd.

ISBN:
978-0-393-09633-0
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OCLC Number:
70462859

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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 …

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È un bel libretto, non incredibile, ma ben scritto. Scorre veloce e, nonostante i balzi temporali, mantiene un pedale stabile. Alcuni personaggi sono interessanti e toccanti, altri sullo sfondo lasciano il dispiacere di una cattiva messa a fuoco. Tutto tranquillo, la solita dinamica di come un capriccio di un potente diventa un'ecatombe di poveracci, mentre la vita si risolve, ad ogni livello, nelle sue storie d'amore più o meno sofferte.