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PLEASE NOTE. As of June 2004 these pages and the links herein are no longer being updated or maintained. Disclaimer : Oakland Unified School District is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. Description: Dostoyevsky's first
masterpiece, published in 1866, the novel is a psychological analysis
of the poor student Raskolnikov, whose theory that humanitarian
ends justify evil means leads him to murder a St. Petersburg pawnbroker.
The act produces nightmarish guilt in Raskolnikov. The narrative's
feverish, compelling tone follows the twists and turns of Raskolnikov's
emotions and elaborates his struggle with his conscience and his
mounting Booknotes:
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Author Biography: Dostoyevsky grew up in a middle-class family in Moscow. His father, a doctor, was a tyrant toward his family, and his mother was a mild, pious woman who died before Dostoyevsky was sixteen. Partly to escape the oppressive atmosphere of his father's household, the boy acquired a love of reading, especially the works of Nikolai Gogol, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Honore de Balzac. At his father's insistence, Dostoyevsky trained as an engineer in St. Petersburg. While the youth was at school, his father was murdered by his own serfs at the family's small country estate. Dostoyevsky rarely mentioned his father's murder, but Oedipal themes are recurrent in his work, and Sigmund Freud suggested that the novelist's epilepsy was a manifestation of guilt over his repressed wish for his father's death. More... http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/dostoevskybio.html# Websites about Fyodor Dostoevsky
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