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Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (Barron's Book Notes)
Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment - Barron's Book Notes Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Virginia B. Morris Harold Bloom suggests the narrative of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment "drives itself onward with the remorseless strength . . . truly a shot out of hell and into hell again." Examine the novel through some of the best criticism available on the piece. Essays discuss the novel's narrative poles, Christianity and existentialism, theory a... more »nd life, and more. This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts presents critical essays that reflect a variety of schools of criticism on the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature. Each volume also contains an introductory essay by Harold Bloom, critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index.« less