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The sinner and the saint : Dostoevsky and the gentleman murderer who inspired a masterpiece

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2021

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Titre :	The sinner and the saint : Dostoevsky and the gentleman murderer who inspired a masterpiece
Auteur :	Birmingham, Kevin, author.
Format :	Book
Éditeur, date :	New York : Penguin Press, 2021.
Description :	416 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Résumé :	"The true story behind the creation of another masterpiece of world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. [A] deeply researched and immersive tale of how Dostoevsky came to write this great murder story-and why it changed the world ... Dostoevsky's great subject was self-consciousness. Crime and Punishment advanced a revolution in artistic thinking and began the greatest phase of Dostoevsky's career"-- Provided by publisher.
Sujets :	Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881. Prestuplenie i nakazanie. Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881 -- Sources. Russian literature -- 19th century.
Genre :	Literary criticism.
Contenu :	A bloody enigma -- The dead leaves -- The devil's streetlamps -- Sharp claws -- Némésis -- The Petrashevsky circle -- The execution -- Exile -- The social contract -- The dead man -- Aunt Razor -- The resurrection -- Ferocious materialism -- The birth of nihilism -- A gambling system -- An evil spirit -- An ax -- Headsmen and victims -- Diseased imagination -- The investigator -- Double-edged evidence -- Little dove -- Tiny diamond -- Buried in furs -- The wedding.
ISBN	9781594206306

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