Crime and Punishment - One Volume - World Classics

Crime and Punishment - Single Volume - World Classics Book Description Dostoyevsky, one of the greatest of Russian literature, was born in Moscow in 1821. He spent his life with his loves, marriages, European travels, passion for gambling and financial difficulties, and conflicts with Turgenev. The countless hardships he went through and the losses he experienced brought him down, but he could not tear himself away from life. There is a superhuman feature in the excessive compassion in Dostoyevsky's gaze, who examines and describes in minute detail the most severe and seemingly unbearable pain and depression that human beings can suffer. He took refuge in books at a young age to escape the pressures of his environment and was influenced by world literature, especially the Romantics. He drew attention to the psychological effects underlying the behavior of people who are unimportant and unaccepted in society. He published "Crime and Punishment", one of the most important novels, in 1866. He pushes the main character, Raskolnikov, to murder in order to make a moral questioning. He built the novel around a murder, but did not turn the act of killing into a purpose. In the novel, which also contains traces of Existentialism based on Christian belief, even Raskolnikov, who appears as one of the most insidious and evil characters in the history of literature, will eventually learn what true love is at the first opportunity he gets. The main idea in the novel is freedom, or more precisely, how a person can become free. He conveyed life in Russia more vividly than any of his colleagues in "Crime and Punishment". Poor university students, women forced into prostitution by their families, the careless and empty lives of petty bourgeois, the fears created by the police state... (From the Promotional Bulletin)