Tag Archives: “Crime and Punishment”

RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Ideology a Virulent Plague (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

He dreamt that the whole world was condemned to a terrible new strange plague that had come to Europe from the depths of Asia. All were to be destroyed except a very few chosen. Some new sorts of microbes were attacking the bodies of men, but these microbes were endowed with intelligence and will. MenContinue reading “RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Ideology a Virulent Plague (Fyodor Dostoevsky)”

RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: He Murdered for Himself (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

‘I didn’t do the murder to gain wealth and power and to become a benefactor of mankind. Nonsense! I simply did it; I did the murder for myself alone, and whether I became a benefactor to others, or spent my life like a spider catching men in my web and sucking the life out ofContinue reading “RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: He Murdered for Himself (Fyodor Dostoevsky)”

RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Daring and Murder (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

‘I divined then, Sonia’ he went on eagerly, ‘that power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare! Then for the first time in my life an idea took shape in my mind which no oneContinue reading “RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Daring and Murder (Fyodor Dostoevsky)”

RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE:  The Clever Cross Examination of a Criminal (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

I believe it’s a sort of legal rule-a sort of legal tradition-for all investigating lawyers to begin their attack from afar, with a trivial, or least and irrelevant subject, so as to encourage or, rather, to divert the man they are cross examining, to disarm his caution and then all at once to give himContinue reading “RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE:  The Clever Cross Examination of a Criminal (Fyodor Dostoevsky)”

RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Illness and Ghosts (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

Ghosts are, as it were, shreds and fragments of other worlds, the beginning of them. A man in health has, of course, no reason to see them, because he is above all a man of this earth and is bound for the sake of completeness and order to live only in this life. But asContinue reading “RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Illness and Ghosts (Fyodor Dostoevsky)”

RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE:  Fear and Loathing Overcomes the Double Murderer (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

“Fear gained more and more mastery over him, especially after this second, quite unexpected murder. He longed to run away from the place as fast as possible. And if at that moment if he had been capable of seeing and reasoning more correctly, if he had been able to realise all the difficulties of hisContinue reading “RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE:  Fear and Loathing Overcomes the Double Murderer (Fyodor Dostoevsky)”

RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE:  A Criminal’s Failure of Will and Reasoning (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

“Almost every criminal is subject to a failure of will and reasoning power by a childish and phenomenal heedlessness at the very instant when prudence and caution are most essential. It was his conviction that this eclipse of reason and failure of willpower attacked a man like a disease, developed gradually and reached its highestContinue reading “RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE:  A Criminal’s Failure of Will and Reasoning (Fyodor Dostoevsky)”

RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Too Many Pots of Vodka and High-Flown Speeches (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

“Evidently Marmeladov was a familiar figure here and he had most likely acquired his weakness for high-flown speeches from the habit of frequently entering into conversation with strangers of all sorts in the tavern. This habit develops into a necessity in some drunkards, and especially in those who are looked after sharply and kept inContinue reading “RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Too Many Pots of Vodka and High-Flown Speeches (Fyodor Dostoevsky)”

RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Should He Murder the Old Hag? (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

‘I want to attempt a thing like that and I am frightened by these trifles’, he thought with an odd smile. ’Hm…yes. all is in a man’s hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that’s an axiom. It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking aContinue reading “RKS RUSSIAN LITERATURE: Should He Murder the Old Hag? (Fyodor Dostoevsky)”