FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

Fyodor Mikhai bokich Dostoevsky (1821-81) lived during one of the most active and changing periods in Russian history until the Bolsherik Revolution of 1917. Thes masterpiece, Crime and Punishment, emphasises the psychological analysis of inner feeling of the soul and the working of the intricate mind of the protagonist, Raskalnilkon, sad to be an alter ego of Dostoevsky himself. Considered one of the greatest writers Russia has produced, Dostoevsky formulated his thoughts about the necessity of suffering. Suffering, for him, became a means by which the soul is purified and expiated all its sins. Suffering became the means of salvation. This critical study of The Crime and Punishment explorer the text from the point of view of its plot, ptrucfure , Raskolmkov’s extra ordinary man theories, characterisation, motifs as well as the stream of consciousness technique employel by Dostoevsky. In addition , the text has been thoroughly analysed for the benefit of students in universities in India and abroad. Shakti Batra, formerly Vice-Principal of Dyal Singh College (University of Delhi). He has taught at The Kabul University and The International University of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek. Now associated with Surjeet Publications, Batra has to his credit critical studies of August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, Bernard Shaw’s Candida, Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of An Anarchist, Feodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby, Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of A Death Foretold, Herik Ibsen’s Ghosts, J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing, Muriel Sparks The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Ngugi wa Thiong’o & Micere Githae Mugo’s The Trial of Dedan Kimathi, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Ernest, Tennesse Willams’s The Glass Menagerie and A Street Car Named Desire, W. Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies and William Shakespeare’s Tempest.

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