Dostoyevsky‘s Crime and punishment (1866) is based on the writer‘s terrifying experience with summary justice and the cruel penal system of Tzarist Russia. It is a tale set in the dingy tenements, backstreets and dram-shops of pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg, and concerns the actions or inactions of a murderer, Raskolnikov, who in setting himself in the […]
How does Dostoevsky treat the problem of ‘crime’ and ‘punishment’ in his novel?What stand does the novelist take?