Word: raskolnikov
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...that C.K. Williams conjures in his new collection, “Wait.” In one poem, he applies fertile Hopkins-like music to descriptions of dust and destruction, while in another he re-imagines a scene from “Crime and Punishment” in which Raskolnikov notices a “Jew on a Bridge.” But even as he takes on the styles or subjects of canonical writers such as these, Williams manages to consistently maintain the gentle, witty, and honest voice that he has spent a lifetime crafting...
Fiction once provided a stomping ground for the crazed or eccentric. When the ideal of civilized behavior combined decorum and good manners, books could offer an escape into the manias of Heathcliff, Ahab and Raskolnikov, or into the stubborn individualism of Gatsby and Huckleberry Finn. Heroes and heroines who would surely disrupt any public society could be avidly followed in private. But as daily life grows more clamorous and abrasive, as violence enters the home regularly by way of TV or flesh-and-blood carriers, serious fiction shows signs of moving in the opposite direction. Novels and story collections tumble...
...account of his disgrace and its aftermath with a central character named Stephen Glass. You might expect a legendary liar to have a gift for invention. "I am compulsively imaginative," the "fictional" Glass assures us. But you'd never know it from this wan novel about a pip-squeak Raskolnikov who wants everybody to love...
...greatest works. In the 19th century, Nikolai Gogol wrote about an enticingly innocent prostitute that patrolled Nevsky Prospect, St. Petersburg’s main thoroughfare. Dostoevsky presented his own romantic version of the St. Petersburg prostitute in Sonya Semyonovna, the teenage prostitute who saves the soul of Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment. More recently, I remember reading a statistic in high school that 90 percent of women graduating from high school named prostitution as their first career choice...
...emotions among other writers. On the one hand, traditions of literary purity will be offended: "I am shocked! Shocked!..." On the other hand, garret-dwelling, check-bouncing, alimony-dodging authors will find that a light-bulb has popped on in their minds. Where's the harm in mentioning that Raskolnikov favored Armani suits? In letting it slip that Rhett Butler splashed on a little Brut, or that Jake Barnes wore Guccis in order to feel at home among the Eurotrash...