Crime and Punishment

Description:

A master portrayer of extreme situations and characters, Dostoevsky explanied that such depictions truly reveal the human condition. Indeed, in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment what the reader most remembers is the intensity of the sweating, disturbed murderer, during his planning of the murder, during his planning of the murder, during the brutal act itself, and during his psychological breakdown that occurs afterwards. While Dostoevsky has been compared to such greats as Joseph Conrad, Flannery O'Connor, and Charles Dickens, few have created a work that reaches such a peak intensity and sustains it like a hell from which one cannot escape. VIVA MODERN CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS presents the best current criticism on the most widely read and studied poems, novels and dramas of the Western world, from Oedipus Rex and the Iliad to such modern and contemporary works as William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Don Delillo's White Noise.

Target Audience:

Students of Literature, English Departments & Libraries.