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Book Review of Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics)

Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics)
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Dostoyevsky is my favorite author and this is without a doubt my favorite of his novels. The character of Raskolnikov, in addition to being a prophetic archetype of the Marxist or Nietzcheian "superman" compels you to sympathize with him as he seeks to arbitrate his own justice by killing a woman and then facing the consequences of his own guilt and condemnation as a result.