Fjodor Dostojewski

"Solange sie hier liegt, ist alles gut ..." Fjodor Dostojewskis Werk geh rt zur Weltliteratur.

Rodion Raskolnikov is young, poor... and ambitious. He is convinced of the idea that "big people" must take what is rightfully theirs and that this distinguishes them from the "little people". They are even allowed to destroy "life unworthy of life". He argues with commanders like Napoleon: if they leave the field as victors, history remembers their great deeds and not the many thousands of murders that went along with them. When, with this thought in his heart, he kills an old usurper and her sister, however, he realizes that the human psyche does not readily embrace this tangled logic. Gr ls Classics - English Edition

Dostoevsky's nameless anti-hero is a contradictory, self-destructive, cynical character. He is reflective, aware of his situation, but lacks any sense of direction. And that makes him literally antisocial. The hermit lives in a poor basement apartment and philosophizes about modern man and his faults and shortcomings. In the process, he becomes permanently entangled in contradictions. Gr ls Classics - English Edition