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Crime and Punishment: Mint Editions (Philosophical and Theological Work)

Autor Fyodor Dostoevsky
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en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 noi 2020

Observăm în proza lui Fyodor Dostoevsky o densitate psihologică ce transformă simpla narațiune într-o experiență cvasi-viscerală. În Crime and Punishment, stilul nu este doar un vehicul al poveștii, ci o oglindă a febrei și a delirului care îl cuprind pe protagonist. Această ediție în limba engleză, semnată de Constance Garnett, păstrează acea cadență tensionată, specifică autorului, în care monologul interior devine un câmp de luptă filozofic. Subliniem faptul că acesta este primul mare roman al maturității dostoievskiene, marcând o tranziție clară de la observația socială din The House of the Dead către explorarea abisurilor conștiinței umane. Premisa este deceptiv de simplă: Rodion Raskolnikov, un fost student sărac, comite o dublă crimă dintr-un amestec de necesitate și aroganță intelectuală. Însă esența cărții nu rezidă în actul violent, ci în „pedeapsa” care începe imediat după acesta — o prăbușire psihologică pe care autorul o documentează cu o precizie chirurgicală. În tradiția analizei literare propuse de Richard Peace în studiile sale despre autor, acest roman reimaginează conceptul de vinovăție nu ca pe o categorie juridică, ci ca pe o stare de alienare față de umanitate. Ritmul este deliberat sufocant, reflectând claustrofobia mansardelor din Sankt Petersburg, iar tonul pendulează între luciditate tăioasă și compasiune mistică. Față de complexitatea corală din The Brothers Karamazov, aici atenția este focalizată aproape obsesiv pe dualitatea personajului central, oferind o perspectivă unică asupra modului în care ideile abstracte pot corupe spiritul uman.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781513220826
ISBN-10: 1513220829
Pagini: 508
Dimensiuni: 132 x 209 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Editura: Mint Editions
Colecția Mint Editions (Philosophical and Theological Work)
Seria Mint Editions (Philosophical and Theological Work)


De ce să citești această carte

Pentru cititorul care dorește să exploreze granița dintre moralitate și rațiune pură. Crime and Punishment nu este doar un roman clasic, ci un studiu fundamental despre condiția umană, oferind o înțelegere profundă a modului în care conștiința funcționează sub presiunea vinei. Câștigați acces la una dintre cele mai influente opere ale literaturii universale, esențială pentru oricine este interesat de psihologie și filozofie existențială.


Despre autor

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881) a fost unul dintre cei mai profunzi romancieri ruși, a cărui viață a fost marcată de extreme: de la condamnarea la moarte și anii de muncă silnică în Siberia, până la recunoașterea ca voce literară de geniu. Experiențele sale din exil i-au modelat viziunea asupra suferinței și mântuirii, teme centrale în capodopere precum The Idiot sau The Brothers Karamazov. Este considerat un precursor al existențialismului, opera sa influențând decisiv gânditori precum Nietzsche și Sartre, dar și bazele psihanalizei moderne.


Descriere scurtă

A seemingly well-reasoned justification of murder comes to pieces as the murderer is forced to confront the true nature of his crime. After much thought Rodion Raskolnikov determines that certain special people deserve the right to step outside of normal law and order to accomplish difficult deeds for the good of others and even humanity as a whole. Trapped in desperate poverty, he justifies his plan to rob and kill a rich, unpopular pawnbroker, reasoning that he will take the money, survive and go on to do good things for others. The terrible act of murder, and the unstoppable cascade of events that follow, throw Raskolnikov into a nightmare of mental unbalance and moral torment. One situation after another arises that drives home his guilt and shows how his brutal act has resulted in nothing but destruction and pain. A surprise visit from family and a policeman who seems teasingly, sardonically aware of his guilt thrust Raskolnikov into a position where he can't tell if even confession will supply meaningful redemption. First published in 1866, Crime and Punishment stands as one of the most acclaimed novels of all time and remains unsurpassed in its penetrating psychology and raw glimpses of a mind wracked by moral confusion and fundamental questions of how to do the right thing. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Crime and Punishment is both modern and readable. Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

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Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury.

Crime and Punishment is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. From the beginning we are locked into the frenzied consciousness of Raskolnikov who, against his better instincts, is inexorably drawn to commit a brutal double murder.

From that moment on, we share his conflicting feelings of self-loathing and pride, of contempt for and need of others, and of terrible despair and hope of redemption: and, in a remarkable transformation of the detective novel, we follow his agonised efforts to probe and confront both his own motives for, and the consequences of, his crime.

The result is a tragic novel built out of a series of supremely dramatic scenes that illuminate the eternal conflicts at the heart of human existence: most especially our desire for self-expression and self-fulfilment, as against the constraints of morality and human laws; and our agonised awareness of the world's harsh injustices and of our own mortality, as against the mysteries of divine justice and immortality.


Recenzii

Stylistic precision and neatness are qualities of Slater's translation... This is an ideal edition to prescribe for senior high school and undergraduate teaching... Young's Introduction lays a good foundation for readers who are new to Dostoevsky, and neatly covers all the major aspects of the novel in its historical context, within the editorial constraints of a translation.
Superb... the Oxford University Press edition is beautifully produced and competitively priced.

Notă biografică

The narrator-referred to in this SparkNote as the Underground Man-introduces himself. He describes himself as sick, wicked, and unattractive, and notes that he has a problem with his liver. He refuses to treat this ailment out of spite, although he understands that keeping his problems from doctors does the doctors themselves no harm. The Underground Man explains that, during his many years in civil service, he was wicked, but that he considers this wickedness a kind of compensation for the fact that he never accepted bribes. He almost immediately revises this claim, however, admitting that he never achieved genuine wickedness toward his customers, but only managed to be rude and intimidating as a kind of game. We learn that the Underground Man has retired early from his civil service job after inheriting a modest sum of money. He only held onto his low-ranking job so that he would be able to afford food, not because he got any satisfaction from it. He notes that he is filled with conflicting impulses: wickedness, sentimentality, self-loathing, contempt for others. His intense consciousness of these opposing elements has paralyzed him. He has settled into his miserable corner of the world, incapable of wickedness and incapable of action, loathing himself even as he congratulates himself on his own intelligence and sensitivity. He adds that the weather in St. Petersburg is probably bad for his health, but that he will stay there anyway, out of spite.