Crime and Punishment

I am very glad to have bought the penguin deluxe edition simply because the translation (I think) Is wonderfull and the annotations first class. When you read Dostoevsky you need a well annotated version just because he makes so many references of the times his works were written

In this book Dostoyevsky sends yet another young troubled man into his doom by having him murder a moneylender and his sister for what appears, just for the heck of it. Raskolnikov, much like Nietzche believes that there is really no need for God anymore since the modern human can survive perfectly well without religion, but can Raskolnikov cope with what he did without the Godly salvation? Can life be worth living if it's meaningless. I clearly see the inspiration that Albert Camus and other philosphers got from crime and punishment.