Day Ninety-Eight

7/8

The Book: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

ISBN: 978-1-59308-081-5

Suggested By: Patrick Garcia

Where: Mug Shot (Longview, Tx)

When: 3:45-4:20

Music: None

Company: Sissy

Pages: 314-369(55)

The Lead In: I like Dostoevsky’s use of Biblical references in his stories. I like the moral undertones it adds to the story. It makes the book more serious, more important.

The 411 on the 55: Raskolnikov heads back into the inspector to have a chat. It gets worse and worse, leading R to begin raving that he should be charged or left alone. The inspector seems to be closing the trap, when a door is flung open by another man who confesses to the crime.

The old lawyer, now spurned by R’s sister calls in Sonya and offers to help out with her mother (now a widow). While I didn’t pick up the actual goal of this, the gist is that he is doing it for evil intents.

The last 3rd of this day’s reading was the funeral scene for Sonya’s father. People are getting drunk and little honor is being paid to the dead man. It’s a wreck.

Line of the Day: “The candle-end was flickering out in the battered candlestick, dimly lighting up in the poverty-stricken room the murderer and the harlot who had so strangely been reading together the eternal book.” pg 314 (pure poetry)

Fact on the Fiction: “Suffering, often as a means of redemption, is a recuttern theme in Russian literature. Dostoevsky in particular is noted for exploring suffering in works such as Notes from Underground and Crime and Punishment. Wikipedia