Thursday, July 5, 2018

Notes to CRIME AND PUNISHMENT Raskolnikov's Split Personality

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Makar Devushkin, Protagonist of "Poor People" Sonya and Raskolnikov The Issue of Mental Instability and ...
Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Notes on CRIME AND PUNISHMENT Motivations for the Murder

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Motivations Why did he do it? This is the central question of C and P , which is a murder mystery, but not what they call a “w...
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Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Notes on "Crime and Punishment" COINCIDENCE AND FYODOR DOSTOEVSY AS UTILITARIAN GOD OF THE NARRATIVE

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Coincidence With his strong Christian sentiments Dostoevsky believed thoroughly in human free will and taking responsibility for o...

Notes to "Crime and Punishment" DOSTOEVSKY THE NEUROSCIENTIST (Dunya and Svidrigailov)

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D. Shmarinov, Illustrations to C and P : Dunya Dostoevsky the Neuroscientist (Dunya and Svidrigailov) Dostoevsky’s métier ...
Monday, July 2, 2018

ALEKSANDR BLOK, "Девушка пела в церковном хоре" Translation into English, "In The Choir of a Church a Young Girl Was Singing"

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Aleksandr Blok (1880-1921 ) Девушка пела в церковном хоре О всех усталых в чужом краю, О всех кораблях, ушедших в море, О...

Notes to CRIME AND PUNISHMENT Radical-left Doctrines in the Novel: Utopian Socialism, Utilitarianism, Nihilism

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Utopian Socialism, Utilitarianism, Nihilism Dostoevsky the journalist and fiction writer was always deeply concerned with the soc...
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Saturday, June 30, 2018

Notes on CRIME AND PUNISHMENT Gogol Conjures up Raskolnikov Before He Exists

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                                             Raskolnikov Conjured Up in "Dead Souls" Sometimes it’s amazing how much inf...
Thursday, June 28, 2018

Notes on CRIME AND PUNISHMENT Going to America "Я, брат, еду в Америку."

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Going to America At several different points in the action of C and P the characters mention going to America. At one point the ...

DOSTOEVSKY AND SOCIALISM

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Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground is often considered the prologue to his five long novels. The first of these is Crime and Pu...
Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Notes on Dostoevsky's CRIME AND PUNISHMENT Преступление и наказание The Marmeladov Subplot

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[Note: I rely in my blog posts here largely on the Jessie Coulson translation of C and P , in the Norton Critical ...