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A review by peachydanie
Schuld Und Sühne by Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.0
*4,5 stars
I don't know how to start this review and show how much I loved this book.
This book is about a former student Raskolnikow, that commits a murder and then has to deal with the consequences of his actions. I immediately got deeply sucked into his gloomy but inteligent mind, which was due to Dostoevsky detailed and pictorial writing style. He made me feel like I was in the situation with Raskolnikow and I felt the anxiety, the torment or the insanity he felt in this moment.
Dostoevsky has the ability to deeply understand the human nature, about being human and how we choose to live our life.
Another thing I loved about this book were the themes Dostoevsky put in the center of the book. Jims review summed it up pretty well:
“It's about poverty and social class and people who rise above their class and people who fall from the class they were born into. It's about the wild dreams and the follies of youth.
There is attempted rape, blackmail, child labor, child prostitution, child marriage and child molestation. There is discussion of marrying for money. There are ethnic tensions between Russians and the Germans of St. Petersburg. Should you give to charity or should you give to change the conditions that caused the poverty?”
All those themes, which are still relevant to this day.
In conclusion I couldn't put the book down and can definitely recommend this book even though it has about 800 pages.
“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
I don't know how to start this review and show how much I loved this book.
This book is about a former student Raskolnikow, that commits a murder and then has to deal with the consequences of his actions. I immediately got deeply sucked into his gloomy but inteligent mind, which was due to Dostoevsky detailed and pictorial writing style. He made me feel like I was in the situation with Raskolnikow and I felt the anxiety, the torment or the insanity he felt in this moment.
Dostoevsky has the ability to deeply understand the human nature, about being human and how we choose to live our life.
Another thing I loved about this book were the themes Dostoevsky put in the center of the book. Jims review summed it up pretty well:
“It's about poverty and social class and people who rise above their class and people who fall from the class they were born into. It's about the wild dreams and the follies of youth.
There is attempted rape, blackmail, child labor, child prostitution, child marriage and child molestation. There is discussion of marrying for money. There are ethnic tensions between Russians and the Germans of St. Petersburg. Should you give to charity or should you give to change the conditions that caused the poverty?”
All those themes, which are still relevant to this day.
In conclusion I couldn't put the book down and can definitely recommend this book even though it has about 800 pages.
“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”