Patrick King wrote:
Crime & Punishment is a herald of the coming revolution.
In it the middle class are depicted has living 2 families to
an apartment. Nothing can be more pessimistic, nor have given
Marxism in Russia a wider open door.
************* Nothing more pessimistic, eh? How about that
wonderful Marxist liberation of the Russian people that
resulted in the death of millions? A small price to pay for
economic equality and the establishment of a workers'
paradise, I guess.
I agree that Crime and Punishment is a solid antecedent to
the noir genre. It did what noir would do so well in the
coming century, exploring crime from an out-of-control
criminal's point of view. Dostoyevsky is heavily interested
in the religious connotations, too, and his concept of
redemption through transgression resonates years later
through the works of Graham Greene and Flannery O'Connor and
others.
miker
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