What are some random facts from the book "Crime and Punishement"??

Question

i want to study this book in depth and would love to know every little thing about it.

Answer 1

It's really long!

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Answer 2

Such a classic book...

--When the first installment of Crime and Punishment appeared in the journal Russian Messenger in January of 1866, its debt-ridden author, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, had not yet finished writing the novel.

--Dostoevsky had, at one point, two ideas for novels: one was to be called "The Drunkards." The other was based around the notion of a "psychological account of a crime". However, the two works soon merged into one; indeed, the Marmeladov family in Crime and Punishment were first conceived with the intention of being characters in "The Drunkards".[

--Dostoevsky wrote various instances of wordplay, or double meanings, into Crime and Punishment. In the original Russian text, the names of the major characters in Crime and Punishment have something of a double meaning. However, these are not seen when translated to different languages.

Name/Word/Meaning (in Russian)

Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov / raskol / a schism, or split

Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin / luzha / a puddle

Dmitri Prokofych Razumikhin razum reason, intelligence

Alexander Grigorievich Zamyotov / zametit / to notice, to realize

Semyon Zakharovich Marmeladov / marmelad / marmalade/jam

Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov / Svidrigailo / a Lithuanian prince

--Russian word for “crime” is “prestuplenie” which in direct translation means “stepping over”. “Stepping over the line” is also one of the phrases used by Raskolnikov in his “Louse or Napoleon” theory.

--The character of Raskolnikov could be compared to other characters in Russian literature of that time. These heroes of Romantic era often possessed the qualities of revolt, cynicism and moral flaw in intelligent and attractive light. The critics created a name for such type of literary character, superfluous person. The examples of these heroes are Pushkin’s Yevgeniy Onegin and Lermontov’s Pechorin (Hero of Our Time).

--The murder weapon in the novel is an axe, a tool so often associated with Russian peasantry. It also carries the connotations of peasant unrest. However, Porfiry, is not deluded by the traditional weapon of a peasant and dismisses two painters from the list of suspects. Instead the ‘axe’ is used in his conversation with Raskolnikov as a double edged metaphor.