Word: raskolnikov
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...Stendhal had done earlier and Nietzsche was to do later)." Frank's narrative and evidence prove that Dostoevsky's long exile made him a fierce patriot and moralist, insistent that individual acts incur inescapable responsibility. It is only selected Western eyes that have seen the experimenting murderer Raskolnikov as the hero of a novel simply called Crime...
...Duncan: "Big Chicken Henderson scoops and whittles at the space beneath his chin with a checkout-counter razor." After caricatures of versifiers like Shakespeare ("To be or not to be; that is the bare bodkin") and novelists like Jane Austen ("Are you not happy in Hertfordshire, Mr. Raskolnikov?"), Editor William Zaranka confesses, "The avowed purpose of both volumes is the same: to fool the sophomores." School's out, and the books are now free to entertain and bamboozle everyone else, in and out of the academy...
...melodramatic Christianity, reactionary slavophilism (which Nabokov links with both Fascism and Communism), lack of artistic sense or taste, and a hackneyed, long-winded style. He doesn't have much to say about the works themselves, and, in fact, Nabokov ignores The Brothers Karamazov altogether. When, in Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov kills an old woman "for some reason or other," Nabokov asks, "Who cares?" He passes off all Dostoevsky's characters as either neurotic or insane, the stuff of "pseudo-literature...
...student is taking an exam. Detailed footnotes are required for the essay and he panics. He proceeds to make them up, a host of bogus references. After the exam, seized by a fit of Raskolnikov-like paranoia that the teacher will check up and expose his crime, he types up index cards in the Dewey Decimal system, one for each reference, and slips them into the Widener catalogue...
Anna Snitkina, stenographer, stands across the street from a dingy building in the artisans' district of St. Petersburg, and thinks: This is the apartment house where Raskolnikov must have lived. Timidly she climbs the stairs and knocks on the door of the second floor apartment. A servant with a green shawl draped around her shoulders lets Anna in, and the stenographer thinks: this must be the shawl worn by Mrs. Marmeladov. Anna follows the servant down a dark hallway, into a dimly lit study and thinks: This is the desk where the great man must have written Crime and Punishment...