11.march.99
I know foreigners know about Dostoevskii. You can say: Dostoevskii, Tolstoi, and Chehov for the theatre.
About "Crime and Punisment" by Dostoevskii. {Now I'm listening Guano Apes "Open your eyes" - cool!} So I don't want to drew any moral from it but I want to say about only three things which itching to me.
1. Raskolnikov felt pure physical illness. He was rotting and withering by body not by mind. It was before crime and it was after that. Many people are apt to think there was a punishment in his twinges. But I can't say this were twinges of consciousness. It was real physical not even psychological pain. Again I don't want to make any conclusions. The main error people make they want to find out what author wanted to say. But I prefer to look at it as on real clinic case. And mind you every author writes about himself. You can consider Dostoevskii simply depicted "his case" that's all. And this case is precious not by it moral but by it true.
2. Everyone makes guesses about murder of old crone but no one remembers and makes fuss about other woman who happen to be witnesses and was killed too. There is a very strange to me.
3. I don't believe in "happy end" of this story. And each one can see that ending of story was artificially stitched to main body. I don't want to discuss it was made deliberately or not. I am only establishing a fact.