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The Sinner and the Saint - Dostoevsky, a Crime and Its Punishment (Hardcover)
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The Sinner and the Saint - Dostoevsky, a Crime and Its Punishment (Hardcover)
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From the acclaimed author of The Most Dangerous Book, the
incredible true story behind the creation of a masterpiece of world
literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment In the summer
of 1865, the former exile Dostoevsky found himself trapped in a
cheap hotel in Wiesbaden, unable to leave until he'd paid the bill.
Having lost the last of his money at the roulette table, his debts
hung heavy over his head, his epileptic seizures were worsening,
and his wife and beloved brother were dead. Desperate, a story came
to him, a way to write himself out of his predicament: the murderer
Raskolnikov, the hot, disorienting swirl of St Petersburg, the axe,
the terrible crime, and the murderer's paranoia. The book was Crime
and Punishment, and from the moment it was published it was a
sensation. But how did this haunting tale of guilt come to be, and
why does it still hold such a sway over us all these years later?
The Sinner and the Saint gives us the story of the creation of a
work of literature that has bewitched readers for over a century,
and of the two men so central to it: Dostoevsky himself, and Pierre
Francois Lacenaire, a notorious murderer and glamorous egoist who
charmed and outraged Paris in the 1830s and whose sensational story
provided the germ of the novel. As reports of his trial tore
through Europe, readers asked themselves: could the instincts of
nihilism, the philosophy inspiring a new generation of Russian
revolutionaries, also drive a man to murder? Showing how both men's
lives were directed by the intoxicating new ideas swirling around
Europe in the nineteenth century, The Sinner and the Saint also
reveals why they still appal and entice us today. Thrilling and
definitive, this is the story of a masterpiece.
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