Crime and Punishment - Just wow I am nearly 40 years of…
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Crime and Punishment - Just wow
I am nearly 40 years of age and picked this novel the second time (the first time I gave up after reading just 20 pages in my teens). I don’t know if it’s my age or the translation I picked up, this time by P&V that made me read it all in one stretch.
Dostobeaky builds the characters dialogue by dialogue, more so monologues if I may say and before you know it paints an emerging picture of an ever evolving story. Sometimes it becomes too convoluted and you begin to question the pointless involvements of certain characters but it doesn’t matter as the crux of the story is something else.. I am a reader of non-fiction primarily and if I pick up fiction, I am particularly selective in the sense that I like “descriptive visual novels” nothing of the sort like this (which is the opposite by the way) and yet it‘s the complexity and unpredictability of human behaviour in the context of his external environment and internal struggles that drew me to this book and made me finish it.
I was rooting for Raskolnikov (Rodya) right till the end. I couldn’t give up on him and the last few pages are some of the most redeeming I’ve ever read anywhere. When I look back I’ll remember this book very vividly, it didn’t seem like a very long book in hindsight (though it is) and it made me immediately pick up his next masterpiece..which hauntingly reads quiet similar just in the first few pages. Hats off Dostoevsky!
Off to reading Brothers Karamazov..
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I am nearly 40 years of age and picked this novel the second time (the first time I gave up after reading just 20 pages in my teens). I don’t know if it’s my age or the translation I picked up, this time by P&V that made me read it all in one stretch.
Dostobeaky builds the characters dialogue by dialogue, more so monologues if I may say and before you know it paints an emerging picture of an ever evolving story. Sometimes it becomes too convoluted and you begin to question the pointless involvements of certain characters but it doesn’t matter as the crux of the story is something else.. I am a reader of non-fiction primarily and if I pick up fiction, I am particularly selective in the sense that I like “descriptive visual novels” nothing of the sort like this (which is the opposite by the way) and yet it‘s the complexity and unpredictability of human behaviour in the context of his external environment and internal struggles that drew me to this book and made me finish it.
I was rooting for Raskolnikov (Rodya) right till the end. I couldn’t give up on him and the last few pages are some of the most redeeming I’ve ever read anywhere. When I look back I’ll remember this book very vividly, it didn’t seem like a very long book in hindsight (though it is) and it made me immediately pick up his next masterpiece..which hauntingly reads quiet similar just in the first few pages. Hats off Dostoevsky!
Off to reading Brothers Karamazov..
#entertainment
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