![]() ![]() Both were floored by the volume's depth and emotional pull, and immediately brought the book to the attention of Vissarion Belinsky, Russia's leading literary critic. Dostoevsky gave a copy to a friend, who showed it to the poet Nikolay Nekrasov. Told through letters that a poor clerk exchanges with his love, an equally poor girl who has agreed to marry a worthless but rich suitor, the story describes the grinding psychological strain of poverty. In 1846, Dostoevsky published his first novella, Poor Folk. HIS EARLY WORK WAS PRAISED FOR ITS PSYCHOLOGICAL INSIGHT. Petersburg in 1834 and achieving the rank of sublieutenant, Dostoevsky resigned to devote himself completely to his craft. Despite graduating from the Academy of Military Engineering in St. Dostoevsky, however, had always been drawn to gothic and Romantic literature and longed to try his hand as a writer. The future author's father, a retired surgeon with a stern and rigid personality, arranged for his son to train for a career as a military engineer. ![]() ![]() His subsequent descent into guilt-ridden anguish and spiritual turmoil has led many to regard Crime and Punishment as one of fiction’s more profound psychological works. In Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1866 novel, a former student named Raskolnikov plans and perpetrates a savage murder in order to test his theory that he is an extraordinary man. ![]()
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