Novel · 1866
Novel · 1866 · Russian · 19th Century
Crime and Punishment
A student murders a pawnbroker to prove a theory and is undone by his own nerves.
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English reading edition · Constance Garnett, translator
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Dostoevsky writes consciousness as fever — heat, stairwells, unpaid rent. The 'extraordinary man' idea is refuted not by argument but by a body that will not stop shaking.
Selected section overview
These are selected acts, parts or episodes, not a complete chapter list. Summaries contain spoilers; descriptive headings are editorial.
Part IThe rehearsal and the axe
Petersburg heat, Marmeladov's confession, the dream of the beaten mare, the murder — and an unplanned second killing.
Part IIDelirium
Illness, the police summons, the compulsion to hint. Guilt as physiology before it is morality.
Part IIIPorfiry
The article on extraordinary men; the investigator who prosecutes by conversation.
Part IVSonya
Svidrigailov's arrival; the reading of Lazarus — two visions of what a person may permit themselves.
Part VConfession
Luzhin's frame-up, Katerina's death, and Raskolnikov's admission to Sonya: 'I killed myself, not the old woman.'
Part VI & EpilogueThe crossroads
Svidrigailov's suicide, the kiss on the earth, Siberia — a conversion the novel deliberately leaves unfinished.
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