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St. Petersburg, Russia on the road to capitalism (1840s to 1890s) - 0 views

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Dostoevsky petersburg c&p

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    The political and economic climate in Saint Petersburg around the time C&P was published.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881) - Find A Grave Memorial - 0 views

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  • An epileptic all his life, Dostoevsky died in St. Petersburg on February 9, 1881.
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    Dostoevsky's grave at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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raskolnikov c&p character

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  • Raskolnikov is a young ex-student of law living in extreme poverty in Saint Petersburg. He lives in a tiny garret which he rents, although due to a lack of funds has been avoiding payment for quite some time (he claims the room aggravates his depression).
  • Raskolnikov murders a pawnbroker, Alyona Ivanovna, with an axe he stole from a janitor's woodshed, with the intention of using her money for good causes, based on a theory he had developed of the "great man". Raskolnikov believed that people were divided into the "ordinary" and the "extraordinary": the ordinary are the common rabble, the extraordinary (notably Napoleon or Muhammad) must not follow the moral codes that apply to ordinary people since they are meant to be great men.
  • Susan Bistrican on 27 Jul 11
     
    A decent character description of the pro/antagonist, Raskolnikov
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IN RASKOLNIKOV'S ST. PETERSBURG - 1 views

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  • Sonya the innocent From Grazhdanskaya 19 I continue on to Kaznacheyskaya, to Sonya Marmeladovna's house and the corner where Raskolnikov exchanged a few words with some whores. A madwoman eats bird seed on Kaznacheyskaya and a half-blind woman is selling used shoestrings. Dostoyevsky knew his Sonya well, and the whores are here again in Ploschad Mira, rubbing shoulders with the other freaks. The official records reveal that in 1868 there were two-thousand-and-forty-eight prostitutes in St. Petersburg. I say my farewells to Sonya's virtues and Dostoyevsky's unrealistic psychology.
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    Short story by Rosa Liksom 1994, inspired by C&P's pro/antagonist.
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  • “Russia’s evil genius,” -- Maxim Gorky (1905)
  • Henry James described Dostoevsky’s works as “baggy monsters” and “fluid puddings”, with a profound “lack of composition” and a “defiance of economy and architecture.
  • And to "CRIME & PUNISHMENT"... "Raskolnikov lived his true life when he was lying on the sofa in his room, deliberating not at all about the old woman, nor even as to whether it is or is not permissible at the will of one man to wipe from the face of the earth another, unnecessary and harmful, man, but whether he ought to live in Petersburg or not, whether he ought to accept money from his mother or not, and on other questions not at all relating to the old woman. And then -- in that region quite independent of animal activities -- the question of whether he would or would not kill the old woman was decided. The question was decided... when he was doing nothing and was only thinking, when only his consciousness was active: and in that consciousness tiny, tiny alterations were taking place. It is at such times that one needs the greatest clearness to decide correctly the questions that have arisen, and it is just then that one glass of beer, or one cigarette, may prevent the solution of the question, may postpone the decision, stifle the voice of conscience and prompt a decision of the question in favor of the lower, animal nature -- as was the case with Raskolnikov. Tiny, tiny alterations -- but on them depend the most immense and terrible consequences." -- Leo Tolstoy on Dostoevsky's Raskolnikov
  • Susan Bistrican on 27 Jul 11
     
    Dostoevsky's work is received differently among his critics who don't always enjoy his work. Though some critics believe that his work is of aesthetic value, the prevailing critique that it is very "Russian" connotes that his work is sometimes macabre and always depressing.
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Pre-Crime oslo norway Breivik Dick c&p

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  • One of the most striking facts about the recent Oslo massacre and bombing by an extremist 32-year-old Norwegian was the sheer amount of pre-meditation that went into the grisly act.
  • There is somehow an unsettling notion that all of these senseless deaths could have been prevented had all the facts been considered ahead of time.
  • If Dostoevsky were to have written his masterpiece Crime and Punishment in the 21st century, Fyodor Mikhailovich - himself accused of a crime and sent to a firing squad in Siberia - would surely have reversed the plot line of the story. The inspector Porfiry would surely have detected Raskolnikov hours - if not days - before his murder of the old pawnbroker in her St. Petersburg apartment. Instead of Raskolnikov slowly but surely submitting to the guilt and terror of having commited the crime after the fact, he would have surely posted his Nietzschean superman manifesto online -- and maybe even tweeted about it -- a few hours beforehand. Without a single violent act being committed, the police authorities would have initiated his arrest and put his eventual Siberian exile into motion. But at what cost to the moral fabric of society?
  • Susan Bistrican on 29 Jul 11
     
    An article discussion the notion of "pre-crime" as referenced in Philip K. Dick's _The Minority Report_. The writer argues that if C&P were written in the 21st century, it could be possible to have stopped the crime before it was committed. This is also in relation to the recent terrorist attacks in Oslo, Norway and Anders Behring Breivik's premeditation of the crime.
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