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http://www1.umn.edu/lol-russ/hpgary/Russ3421/lesson9.htm what a beautiful website This is the one of many covers to our book

The University of Minnesota, to begin with, has giving us a great resource that will hopefully lead us to better comprehend our next novel-- //The Brothers Karamazov//. This website starts off with a little [|background information] on Fyodor Dostoevsky, the author, and some of [|his great works]. This, however, will not be the focus of this website. Instead will be focusing on the information that is provided for us on another one of Dostoevsky's books, //Crime and Punishment.// The site starts off by discussing the significance of various titles that were possible for Dostoevsky's work. Then it slowly moves into the stuff that Dostoevsky had to do to get his book published. This section contains a vary interesting part in which we get to view a letter that dostoevsky wrote to a publishing company explaining his book. In this letter he says various insights to the book such as, "The novel is a psycho- logical account of a crime," and, "The feeling of separation and isolation from mankind, nature, and the law of truth take their toll. The criminal decides to accept suffering so as to redeem his deed. But it is difficult for me to explain in full my thinking." These quotes allow us to get the generally tone that Dostoevsky uses throughout his book, and possibly in the //Brothers K//. As we move along through the website, we next encounter the critical responses to //Crime and Punishment//.This section basically is filled with what others thought of his book and comments on those thoughts. D. I. Pisarev (1840-1868) is the very first critic. "Pisarev interpreted the novel as an exposé of the evil system which forced upon so brilliant a person as Raskolnikov the choice between crime and death by starvation." Next to comment was N. N. Strakhov (1828-1895), who basically gave an oposing arguement to our first critic. "Strakhov first attempted to defend the novel from the attacks of the majority of the liberal and radical press. A. I. Vvedenskij was included next in this section, and he disagreed with both of the previous for allowing politics to have too much of a pull on their opinions of the book. The site ends by giving the opinions and anylasises proved by three more men named Konstantin Mochulsky, D. Merezhkovsky (1865-1941), and V. Ivanov (1866-1949). Each provided an insight about the Book and information that they thought was relevant. We decided to delve deeper into some other famous books by Dostoevsky, so we can compare it to //Brothers K//. Most of the information we got was from the critics that evaluated the book and also a note by Dostoevsky himself. In a note to [|The Russian Messenger], a conservative newspaper source. In the note, Dostoevsky describes the book as a cross between the psychological and logical aspects of a murder that took place. This seems to be important to our //Brothers K// novel because both books deal with a crime and while //Brothers K// might be different when it comes to the plot and what the book focuses on, it seems unlikely that Dostoevsky didn't continue his trend of involving the analysis of the mind after a crime into //Brothers K//. Then there are the critics view and interpretations of the book. The first two to criticize the book were very influenced by political ideology that Dostoevsky presented. In this section they really didn't try to find the deeper meanings of the book and they really didn't achieve much depth at all. Then A. I. Vvedenskij starts to criticize the first two for their poor interpretations. Afterwards, he goes on to talk about the motives behind the crime and how it could have been avoided in the first place. He talks about how the main character didn't take a job that could have sustained him so he wouldn't have been in poverty. Then [|A. I. Vvedenskij] goes into the psychological part of the murder when he talks of how the main character killed a woman to rob her, but right after he went and hid the money. It almost seems like the main character was second guessing himself. Or perhaps it is suggesting that the character was so set on his path that any opportunity for him to stop was completely ignored. This is a big psychological idea and perhaps it will come up again in //Brothers K// as the trial unfolds and we gain more information. Dostoevsky was a great writer and apparently he thought about human psychology and the logic that drives us in his work in //Crime and Punishment//. Since he put so much attention into the human psyche in //Crime and Punishment//, it seems inevitable that it will come up in //Brothers K//. Also, while several critics have attempted to explain the book, none have succeeded in getting to its deepest meaning. So as the website says, "[|but only that the novel has, so far, proved richer than the minds of its critics]," perhaps we aren't meant to understand //Brothers K// fully either.

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