/lit/ - Literature

>>17603988
(5/8)
Crime and Punishment follows a student by Raskolnikov who argues through murdering a miser woman, he could distribute her wealth and do far more good, negating the evil act he commits. However the crime does not go well, and he ends up killing two people, and forgetting the majority of the money that he intended to steal. It is later revealed that his true intention was not to steal the money (it was only part of the justification), but to fulfil the philosophical desire to be one of the few men who could rise above society, to go against the grain. That he had the intellectual capacity to move beyond basic human empathy, and become a man who create his own morality (this is what is similar to Nietzsche, and his Übermensch) . However he fails. His mind is racked with guilt and becomes crazy, with fever dreams and bouts of madness. He is unable to move beyond deotological morality, and only finds comfort in confession and penance. His utilitarinism and seculirism deluded him in to believing he could reject his “irrational” humanity, and is forced to reconcile with those basic desires of compassion and love.

who here read this. i just bought it and think i maybe made a mistake.

this will be my first dostojewski. good choice?

>>8944944
Pic related. It's as bleak and depressing look at the horrors that someone who is mostly sane after committing murder. Crime is one of the topics that intrigues me to no end and this book was a fantastic look into it.