Review: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT by Fyodor Dostoevsky

along with Tolstoy's War and Peace, this iis considered one of the greatest Russian novels of all time. It's most interesting for what it isn't. Though it's about a murder, it it isn't a whodunit, because the reader knows the whole time the murderer and the motive.

Despite the title, it also isn't a prison novel; the "punishment" referred to is entirely internal. It merely follows the main character from a double murdrer to his confession several days later. The bulk of the novel is devoted to his physical, mental, and relational breakdowns.

To be honest, I didn't much like it. I thought it was too long, with too many characters. I doubt my opinion will change anyone else's, but now you have it.