Word: raskolnikov
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...perhaps too great a novel to be tampered with. But by the same token it would seem able to withstand a lot of tampering. Dostoevsky's great study of crime and punishment is also a tense story of crime and detection. Before its arrogant Nietzschean murderer Raskolnikov (John Gielgud) is guided toward confession and atonement by a humble Christian prostitute (Dolly Haas), he is played with, cat-&-mouse, by the Moscow police...
...from concealing the clues and making a crafty getaway, the mad murderer is usually indifferent about being arrested. Often, like Dostoevsky's Raskolnikov, he is anxious for his crime to be followed by punishment...
...Some others: Alexander Barmine (former Soviet chargé d'affaires in Athens, now a U.S. citizen); Victor Kravchenko (former member of the Soviet Purchasing Commission in Washington); Fedor F. Raskolnikov (former Soviet minister to Bulgaria, died in suspicious circumstances on the French Riviera); Walter G. Krivitsky (former chief of Soviet Military Intelligence in Western Europe, died in suspicious circumstances in Washington); Ignace Reiss (former assistant chief of Soviet Military Intelligence in Central Europe, murdered in Switzerland...
...threnodic '303 Humorist Sidney Joseph Perelman was just a "fun-loving American boy," "a combination of Raskolnikov and Mark Tidd."* He loved his alma mater's "mingled smell of wood smoke and freshmen." But one day, while "reclining on my chaise longue in a negligee trimmed with marabou," Perelman glanced at the "Why Don't You?" department in Harper's Bazaar: "Why don't you try the effect of diamond roses and ribbons flat on your head, as Garbo wears them when she says good-bye to Armand. . . ?" "Why don't you travel with...
...Double, or split personality, such as Raskolnikov of Crime and Punishment, "thirsts for power and is powerless, he desires to torture and to be tortured, to debase himself and to debase others, to be proud and to humble himself." Dominance of one trait characterizes the Meek (quixotic Prince Myshkin of The Idiot}, as also the Self-Willed (the murderer Verkhovenski in The Possessed...