Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
…Extraordinary men have the right to kill
This book is undoubtedly one of the best works of literature I’ve ever my hands upon. It would be an understatement to say that this book is a motion picture taking you along with it; this book is much more than that. The wringing of hands, the exquisite anger turning into love…and love being hated by the protagonist…all the hidden feelings are confessed. On the day of the funeral supper, the lady is not only moaning her husband’s death as some of the authors might have expounded; she is bothered by trifling things such as pride,vanity and self-esteem. She wants everybody to pay attention to her, as if it’s her wedding day. She speaks of the laurels she’s earned by her “shawl dance”; she tells everyone that her children are genteel. Could anything be closer to the shrouded reality we daren’t concede even to ourselves?
Judging by the translation, the book seems to have been written in Russian vernacular. It is easy to see that Dostoevsky wrote for the masses, not for a “target audience”. The story is related to everyone, for it is the story of a stinging conscience; a story where delirium is not exaggeration inasmuch as river is not an ocean. The dialogues are appealing, meaningful and even repository of knowledge. This novel is not a thriller; it is a psychological chronicle without sense of time…a mammoth paradox in literature. I recommend this book to all those who exist.
like to see that our opnion is quite similar about this :)
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