Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1866
Devastation Rating
philosophical trauma literary fiction injustice
Our Take
Raskolnikov's mind is the most uncomfortable place in literature. Dostoevsky makes you live inside a murder and its aftermath — inside guilt that cannot be named because the murderer refuses to feel guilty. The punishment is not legal. It is the slow collapse of a philosophy, and it is merciless.
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