CRIME AND PUNISHMENT - WORDSWORTH CLASSICS
Translation by Constance Garnett
With Selected excerpts from The Notebooks for Crime and Punishment Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder. From that moment on, we share his conflicting feelings of self-loathing and pride, of contempt for and need of others, and of terrible despair and hope of redemption: and, in a remarkable transformation of the detective novel, we follow his agonised efforts to probe and confront both his own motives for, and the consequences of, his crime. The result is a tragic novel built out of a series of supremely dramatic scenes that illuminate the eternal conflicts at the heart of human existence: most especially our desire for self-expression and self-fulfilment, as against the constraints of morality and human laws; and our agonised awareness of the world's harsh injustices and of our own mortality, as against the mysteries of divine justice and immortality.
FIODOR DOSTOYEVSKI
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky 1821-1881 is a Russian novelist. Of his eleven novels, his three most famous were written later in life: 'Crime and Punishment', 'The Idiot' and 'The Brothers Karamazov'. His books have been translated into over 170 languages, and have sold over 15 million copies.
Edad: adultos jóvenes
DOSTOIEVSKI FIODOR M.
Fiódor Mijáilovich Dostoievski Moscú, 1821 - San Petersburgo, 1881 es uno de los mejores novelistas rusos de la historia. Educado por un padre alcohólico y déspota, tras la temprana muerte de su madre, estudió en la Escuela de Ingenieros de San Petersburgo. En 1849 fue condenado a muerte por colaborar con grupos liberales, sin embargo fue indultado horas antes de la ejecución. Sus escritos, extremadamente minuciosos, son profundos análisis psicológicos, tragedias de moralidad, apuntes de existencialismo, que diseccionan la sociedad del siglo XIX. De entre sus obras destacan: Pobres gentes 1846 , El doble 1846 , Humillados y ofendidos 1861 , Notas de invierno sobre impresiones deverano 1863 , Memorias del subsuelo 1864 , El jugador 1866 , Crimen y castigo 1866; Austral, 2011 , El idiota 1868 , El eterno marido 1870 Los endemoniados 1871-1872 , El adolescente 1875 , Los hermanos Karamazov 1880 .
