Crime and Punishment: With selected excerpts from the Notebooks for Crime and Punishment - Brossura

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1840224304 ISBN 13: 9781840224306

Casa editrice: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2000

Riassunto

Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury.

Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder.

From that moment on, we share his conflicting feelings of self-loathing and pride, of contempt for and need of others, and of terrible despair and hope of redemption: and, in a remarkable transformation of the detective novel, we follow his agonised efforts to probe and confront both his own motives for, and the consequences of, his crime.

The result is a tragic novel built out of a series of supremely dramatic scenes that illuminate the eternal conflicts at the heart of human existence: most especially our desire for self-expression and self-fulfilment, as against the constraints of morality and human laws; and our agonised awareness of the world's harsh injustices and of our own mortality, as against the mysteries of divine justice and immortality.

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A novel built out of a series of dramatic scenes that illuminate eternal conflicts at the heart of human existence: most especially our desire for self-expression and self-fulfilment, as against the constraints of morality and human laws.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1840224304
• ISBN 13: 9781840224306
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 528
• Redattore: Carabine Keith
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile