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It first seems bizarre that the finest Murder Mystery in literature would betray the Whodunit so early--but that--at least in itself--wasn't Dostoevsky's objective. A literal translation of the Russian reveals 'Transgression and Retribution,' and it is here that the proto- (also PRE-Nietzchean) Ubermensch idea takes shape, within the tortured psyches of Rodyon Romanovitch Raskolnikov & Svidrigilov. I defy any first-time reader to put this one down once he or she has commenced its reading!!! Dostoevsky wrote this page-turner in record time; indeed we often wonder how much he invented spontaneously! I reread it at least annually & and have done for 21 years.
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Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
castorp70, January 21, 2011
It first seems bizarre that the finest Murder Mystery in literature would betray the Whodunit so early--but that--at least in itself--wasn't Dostoevsky's objective. A literal translation of the Russian reveals 'Transgression and Retribution,' and it is here that the proto- (also PRE-Nietzchean) Ubermensch idea takes shape, within the tortured psyches of Rodyon Romanovitch Raskolnikov & Svidrigilov. I defy any first-time reader to put this one down once he or she has commenced its reading!!! Dostoevsky wrote this page-turner in record time; indeed we often wonder how much he invented spontaneously! I reread it at least annually & and have done for 21 years.