Crime and punishment
In Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky presents a police novel with psychological sophistication, which has become one of the most important works of Russian realism. Crime and punishment What is it about? I s it possible to commit the perfect crime? Is there such a thing as "justified murder", which costs a person his life but helps many others? Can human consciousness be silenced with rational reflections? These are the questions that Fedor M. Dostoevsky seeks to answer with his novel Crime and Punishment. The best known and most appreciated work of the Russian author presents a police story built masterfully: the murder of an old moneylender at the hands of the student Raskolnikov and the remorse of conscience that overwhelms him afterwards. Raskolnikov thinks he’s some kind of superman, and compares with Napoleon and seeks to justify his actions with rational arguments. But, after committing the murder, his bad conscience slowly drags him into overwhelming despair. So...