Crime and Punishment

Author: Dostoevsky
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Foreign Masterpiece of Long Fiction - Second Batch. University student Raskolnikov is poor and sensitive, living in a attic under the roof of a five-story building, supported by meager allowances from his mother and sister. Faced with the extreme inequality of social reality, he develops a radical view of humanity: he believes there are only two types of people in the world - the ordinary and the extraordinary. He intends to become an "extraordinary" to save the masses. After meeting the destitute official Marmeladov and his daughter, his strong sense of compassion compels him to kill the greedy and cruel usurer. However, after committing the crime, he is overcome with deep remorse. Through the collapse of the protagonist's "extraordinary" philosophy, the book demonstrates that one cannot escape the punishment of their conscience, destroying others in the process of destroying themselves. The work fully showcases Dostoevsky's exceptional ability in psychological analysis.