Crime and Punishment – F.M. Dostoevsky

Posted on March 19, 2012 by mbcadmin

Date: 20 March 2012

Venue: Cote, Cambridge

Book Score: 19

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3 Responses to Crime and Punishment – F.M. Dostoevsky

  1. Mr Black says:
    March 20, 2012 at 7:11 pm

    Russia’s very own Auto da Fe

  2. Mr Red says:
    April 14, 2012 at 2:16 pm

    What’s surprising about this book is its humour. The drunken monologue by Marmeladov that opens the book is hilarious, and other characters are grotesquely funny. There are terrifying set-pieces, wonderful scenes, all inserted into a compelling narrative and plot. The murder itself is a classic piece of suspense. An unquestionable masterpiece!

  3. Mr Orange says:
    May 27, 2012 at 2:08 pm

    Spot on, Mr Red. Crime and Punishment is one of the world’s great works of art — a deceptively simple murder story that operates on a number of levels. Raskolnikov and Porfiry are sympathetic adversaries in this compelling examination of the human condition which continues to resonate.

    Mr Black must have read a different Russian book.

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