Crime and Punishment
14 Nov, 2019
890 Other literatures
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the novel written by Dostoevsky and published in 1866, in which Raskolnikov, a struggling student, justifies his murder of two women, as his future is more valuable than their lives. He thinks himself superior, above the moral laws that apply to others. The police have little evidence against him but trust him to confess, once he cannot bear the mental torture of his crime - a fate he cannot avoid, any more than he can escape from life in St Petersburg and his personal failures. The image above is from a portrait of Dostoevsky by Vasili Perov, 1872.
Guests
- Sarah Hudspith
3 episodes
Associate Professor in Russian at the University of Leeds -
Oliver Ready No other episodes
Lecturer in Russian at the University of Oxford, Research Fellow at St Antony's College and a translator of this novel -
Sarah Young No other episodes
Associate Professor in Russian at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London
Reading list
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The New Russian Dostoevsky: Readings for the Twenty-First Century
Carol Apollonio (ed.) (Slavica, 2010) -
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics
Mikhail Bakhtin (trans. and ed. Caryl Emerson) (University of Minnesota Press, 1984) Google Books → -
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Robert Bird (Reaktion Books, 2012) Google Books → -
A Dostoevskii Companion: Texts and Contexts
Katherine Bowers, Connor Doak, Kate Holland (eds.) (Academic Studies Press, 2018) Google Books → -
The Master of Petersburg
J.M. Coetzee (Viking, 1994) Google Books → -
Dostoevsky and the Riddle of the Self
Yuri Corrigan (Northwestern University Press, 2017) Google Books → -
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky (trans. Oliver Ready) (Penguin, 2014) Google Books → -
The Double
Fyodor Dostoevsky (trans. Frederick Whishaw) (CreateSpace, 2015) Google Books → -
Notes from a Dead House
Fyodor Dostoevsky (trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky) (Broadway Books, 2016) Google Books → -
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky (trans. Constance Garnett) (CreateSpace, 2017) Google Books → -
Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871
Joseph Frank (Princeton University Press, 1995) Google Books → -
Dostoevsky: A Writer in his Time
Joseph Frank (Princeton University Press, 2009) Google Books → -
Dostoevsky's Quest for Form: A Study of His Philosophy of Art
Robert Louis Jackson (Yale University Press, 1966) Google Books → -
The Cambridge Companion to Dostoevskii
William J. Leatherbarrow (ed.) (Cambridge University Press, 2002) Google Books → -
Dostoevsky in Context
Deborah A. Martinsen and Olga Maiorova (eds.) (Cambridge University Press, 2015) Google Books → -
Dostoevsky and the Christian Tradition
George Pattison and Diane Oenning Thompson (eds) (Cambridge University Press, 2001) Google Books → -
Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment: A Casebook
Richard Peace (ed.) (Oxford University Press, 2006) Google Books → -
Summer in Baden-Baden
Leonid Tsypkin (trans. Roger and Angela Keys) (Hamish Hamilton, 2005) Google Books → -
Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction
Rowan Williams (Continuum, 2008) Google Books →
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