Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (also rec’d by David Lynch , Joan Didion , Norman Mailer & Philip Roth )
Buy on AmazonOne of my all-time favorite novels is Crime and Punishment . I read it in high school, and for some terrifying reason, I really identified with Raskolnikov. It’s so funny, because he sort of behaves amorally, but he has an incredible sense of right and wrong. Obviously, I couldn’t identify with him as a killer, but I could understand what it means to know that something’s wrong but do it anyway. I was 17 when I read it, and the feeling of having betrayed one’s sense of right and wrong—and the...
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"One of my all-time favorite novels is Crime and Punishment . I read it in high school, and for some terrifying reason, I really identified with Raskolnikov. It’s so funny, because he sort of behaves amorally, but he has an incredible sense of right and wrong. Obviously, I couldn’t identify with him as a killer, but I could understand what it means to know that something’s wrong but do it anyway. I was 17 when I read it, and the feeling of having betrayed one’s sense of right and wrong—and the..."
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"This was one of the books that I started reading as Noma was opening. I was sleeping on the couch every night, coming home from work completely exhausted, way too stressed out and slowly sinking into some sort of depression. I became totally absorbed by the writing and universe that Dostoyevsky creates; it is the perfect escape."
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"When I grew a little older my father read me the murder scene in this book and said: This is what violent literature should be like, son. He was right. This is one of the most influential books I’ve read and it affected the writing of my own book. My father gave me a very special feeling about written words."
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