/lit/ - Literature

This year I'm reading 52 books in 52 weeks.
So far I've read:
>Augustine's Confessions
>Jane Austen's Emma
>Charles Dickens' Great Expectations

Currently Reading:
>Crime and Punishment

What are you guys reading? What are your goals?

why include the part about public admission of one's crime if Raskolnikov was just going to skimp out on it and confess privately?

simple question: which translation is best for a casual reader

I genuinely don't know the answer to this.
Dostoevsky obviously says no. People can make a choice no matter where they are in life.

However, almost everyone that rapes and murders was abused in some way as a child. Most lived a life of struggle.
Doesn't this factor in somehow? Isn't punishing someone for a crime just punishing them for their childhood in some ways?

Isn't this just taxi driver but drawn out into instalments to make a newspaper money?

Isn't this just taxi driver but drawn out into instalments to make a newspaper money?

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Thank you fine gentlemen.

Isn't this just taxi driver but more drawn out into instalments make a newspaper money?

But this book. I'm done with the first "part". Raskolnikov acts so much like an anime character that everything I imagine while reading is turned into an anime. It's starting to be off-putting. What do you guys see in this?

>>15693743
Dostoyevsky in general

I just finished it and I loved it, but I thought it dragged on a bit too long, the message was already delivered by the Lazarus passage. What do you guys think of it?

Just finished reading this bros

I used to read significantly more than I do now but with the quarantine here and all I've made it a goal to get back those reading habbits. Finally finished my first Dostoevsky novel, I loved it. The way the inner conflicts that plague Raskolnikov are written are incredible. Overall just enjoyed it a lot, the confrontations between Rodion and Porfiry are a joy to read and the resolution of the novel makes the entire journey worth it.

Any recommendations as to which of Dostoevsky's works I should tackle next? I've got some other books like Gravity's Rainbow, Nostromo, and Roadside Picnic to read before that though.

>>15582017

>>15543333
I'm sad because EVA deserves to be here but the EVA manga is so fucking terrible that I can't justify posting it. Pic related definitely applies here though.

Why did Svidrigailov kill himself?

I can understand the pain of Dunya rejecting him, but he still was a middle class gentleman of connections, and had an attractive betrothal and future set up (Almost exactly what Luzhin had wanted after all). Was Dunya just so important to him?

First book I've read by Dostoevsky and just finished the last 160 pages in one sitting. Holy shit what an experience, I feel drained, elated and puzzled.

Razumikhin and Raskolnikov's mom are absolutely based and I'm glad he got to marry Dunya. Dunya is also based for not putting up with Raskolnikov's bullshit.

After digesting this for a bit, what other morality focused books should I read?

What a fantastic book.

>But if you are convinced that people shouldn't listen to doors but that they may murderer old women at their pleasure, you'd better hurry off to America.
>Run, young man?
WTF did he mean by this?

What's the best translation? Apparently there's like 13 to English alone, some very new ones too.

would you have confessed? why or why not?

>>14686120
>BEST crime fiction
russia
no one else is even on this level.

so raskolnikov killed that woman to see if he's special like napoleon? what a dumb reason. and the book barely touches the fact that he ended up killing lisaweta too, the woman he wanted to save

what do you think this book is about?
I think it’s about the humbling of Rashkolnikov. Porfiry reveals to him that one of his papers was published under a different publisher and rash didn’t know it had been. But this also gives us a glimpse into his mind about 2 months before the murders. The paper was about how he felt there were ordinary men and extraordinary men, and that the extraordinary men did not have to follow the same laws are normal men (they could murder), he references Napoleon and some others as examples. So I think this tells us that he believes he is extraordinary, that’s why he commits the murders so that he can find out. Obviously this doesn’t work out and leading up to the murders and after he is a complete mess. Eventually it ends with him coming to the realization he is just ordinary. I’ll leave it here if anyone wants to discuss