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World Book Club: Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Crime and Punishment

07/08/2021 GMT

Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

BBC World Service - World Book Club, Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Damnation and redemption in 19th Century St Petersburg

Damnation and redemption in 19th Century St Petersburg.

To mark the bicentenary of the birth of the great Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky World Book Club revisits Crime and Punishment in an edition recorded at the elegant Pushkin House, London’s Russian cultural hub, in 2016.

To help us explore Dostoyevsky’s haunting classic thriller Harriett Gilbert was joined by acclaimed Russian writer Boris Akunin and Russian scholar Dr Sarah Young.

Consumed by the idea of his own special destiny, Rashkolnikov is drawn to commit a terrible crime. In the aftermath, he is dogged by madness, guilt and a calculating detective, and a feverish cat-and-mouse game unfolds.

(Photo credit: Alexander Aksakov/Getty Images.)

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