now I understand…
July 30, 2008
Dostoevsky=genius. two months of trudging through Crime and Punishment was definitely worth it. The book is so rich. I just finished and feel like there’s already so much I missed and wish I had the time to go through certain passages and work out the imagery and symbolism. Luckily, my copy is a first-edition Norton Critical Edition so in the back there are lots of amazing criticism essays. I’m going to have to place this amongst one of the books I appreciate the most for quality.
“This was it: I wanted to make myself a Napoleon, and that is why I killed her…Now do you understand?”
