/lit/ - Literature

I just finished it. It was good.

>>11219616
>i just bought it and think i maybe made a mistake.
You think you made a mistake buying one of the most noted works in all of literature?
It's fine for your first Dosto

I've read it, great book.

Loved it, if you're a brainlet it might be good to keep a list of characters handy.

marmeladow
raskolinkow
asselejewitsch
100 variations upcoming

> fuck me

>>11219810
Seriously what the fuck
I swear in one scene someone would be referred to in three different ways

>>11219616
its a good choice, however do note that the book is the worst at the start, and gets sequentially better the more it progresses, with a great ending
AND THE AXE IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE OTHER WAY

>>11219852
thanks for spoiling nigger

>>11219792
This. You will be grateful later. Write some of their idiosyncrasies as well, preferably.

And, likely not popular on lit but: Peterson has some interesting insights on this book psychologically too. To paraphrase
>"when you do something wrong and get caught it's easy, like weight has been lifted. But when you don't get caught, you wish you would just to make the unbearable pain stop. Raskolnikov thought killing a person would be easy, and Dosto has a way to portray the person getting killed as someone who deserved it. With the unlucky exception of her niese. After, he realize that there actually is some kind of guilt, he tells one girl, and she is terrified, which exacerbates his guilt.
Something to that effect.

Anyway, it's a great book, and was my intro to Dosto as well. If you read it correctly you won't regret it.

>>11219894
spoiling literally what
do you not know the premise?
that's written on the back of the book?

>>11219894
>spoiling Dosto
kek

>>11219814
It's the same as referring to someone as James, Jim, Jimmy, or their last names. The Russians also have paternal names which should be well explained if you have a good copy of the book.