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I’m half way through this book on a re-read. I think it’s one of the best psychological thrillers and philosophical treatises ever published.
Apparently, Freud and Nietzsche both agree.
It’s interesting how guilt set in even before the crime was committed so we can rule out psychopathy. The fact that Raskolnikov wrote a published paper claiming that some people (Nietzsche’s uberman) like Napoleon or Isaac Newton were entitled to kill as they pleased because they had superior intelligence is ridiculous! But I’ve always wondered why people think Alexander the Great was so great anyways. ?!
Fictional Works by DostoevskyYear Title of Literary Work Type
1846 Poor Folk (also called Poor People) short novel
1846 The Double medium novel
1846 Mr. Prokharchin short story
1847 Novel in Nine Letters short story
1847 The Landlady (also called The Stranger-Woman) short story
1848 The Jealous Husband (Under the Bed and Another Man's Wife) short story
1848 A Faint Heart (also called A Weak Heart) short story
1848 Polzunkov short story
1848 Out of the Service ?
1848 The Honest Thief short story
1848 The Christmas Tree and a Wedding (The Fir Tree and a Wedding) short story
1848 White Nights (also called Bright Nights) short story
1849 Netochka Nezvanovna medium novel
1849 The Little Hero short story
1859 The Uncle's Dream short novel
1859 The Village of Stepanchikovo (The Friend of the Family) medium novel
1861 The Insulted and the Injured (The Humiliated and Wronged) medium novel
1862 House of the Dead (Notes From the House of the Dead) medium novel
1862 A Nasty Anecdote (An Unpleasant Predicament, A Silly Story) short story
1864 Notes From Underground (also called Letters From The Underworld) short novel
1865 The Crocodile (also called An Unusual Happening) short story
1866 Crime and Punishment long novel
1867 The Gambler short novel
1868 The Idiot long novel
1870 The Eternal Husband short novel
1871 Demons (also called Devils, The Possessed) long novel
1873 Bobok short story
1875 The Adolescent (also called A Raw Youth) long novel
1876 The Heavenly Christmas Tree (also called The Heavenly Fir Tree) short story
1876 A Gentle Spirit (also called A Gentle Creature, The Meek One) short story
1877 The Dream of a Ridiculous Man short story
1879 The Brothers Karamazov long novel
Vol 1 391p The Seeds of Revolt, 1821 - 1849Vol 2 304p The Years of Ordeal, 1850 - 1859
Vol 3 375p The Stir of Liberation, 1860 - 1865
Vol 4 501p The Miraculous Years, 1865 - 1871
Vol 5 756p The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871 - 1881
Joseph Frank’s definitive biography of Dostoevsky consists of 5 volumes totaling 2327 pages.
I’m going to complete this by reading about 50 pages per week.
Volume 1 discusses his early writing: Poor Folk, The Double, and Netotchka Nezvanova
So I will read those too along the way.
