Crime and Punishment

Author: Dostoevsky
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: This book is one of the important works of the famous 19th-century Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky. The novel depicts a poor university student, Raskolnikov, driven by the need for survival, who is influenced by anarchism, becomes mentally unstable, kills the pawnbroker and her innocent sister, and commits a shocking murder case across Russia. Eventually, under the persuasion of the Christian girl Sonya, he surrenders to the authorities, is sentenced to exile in Siberia. The work focuses on the protagonist's state of conscience after the crime, feeling deeply lonely and fearful, and portrays his psychological changes before and after the crime, revealing the difficult lives of the lower classes in Russia. The entire book is permeated with the ideas of tolerance, obedience, and seeking redemption through religion.