[A] new translation accompanied by his preface and detailed explanatory footnotes; names of principal characters, a note on characters' names, and a map of St. Petersburg, [and] key excerpts from Dostoevsky's notebooks, letters, and his early draft of Part II, Chapter 2. Twenty-eight scholarly essays on the novel from Russian, European, and American sources; a chronology and a selected bibliography.--Back cover. ----Translation is based on the authoritative text published in Vol. 6 of the author's Complete Collected works in Thirty Volumes [Polnoe sobranie sochinenii v triditsati tomakh] (Leningrad, 1973) -- Preface. Includes bibliographical references (pages 575-576).
Contents:
Selected bibliography. Backgrounds and Sources -- Criticism: Serialization of Crime and Punishment in The Russian Herald (1866) -- Ellen Chances -- -- How minute changes of consciousness caused Raskolnikov to commit murder / Leo Tolstoy -- The history of the writing of the novel / Sergei V. Belov -- Religion of suffering / Vicomte E. M. de Vogue -- Crime and Punishment (1866) / Vladimir Nabokov -- Dostoevsky's search for motives in the notebooks / Konstantin Mochulsky -- The first sentence in Crime and Punishment, the word "Crime", and other matters / Vadim Kozhinov -- Philosophical pro and contra in Part one of Crime and Punishment / Robert Louis Jackson -- The death of Marmeladov / Konrad Onasch -- The nihilism of Sonia Marmeladova / Michael R. Katz -- The wisdom of a Iurodivaia / Harriet Murav -- Dunia Raskol'nikov, the aesthetic consequence of virtue in Crime and Punishment / Gary Rosenshield -- Self-sacrifice vs. saving a sister, the roles of sister and brother / Anna Berman -- Traditional symbolism in Crime and Punishment / George Gibian -- The world of Raskolnikov / Joseph Frank -- The revolt against Mother Earth / Vyachselav Ivanov -- Recurrent imagery in Crime and Punishment / Ralph E. Matlaw -- The problem of guilt in Dostoevsky's fiction / A Bem -- "It was I who killed the old woman and her sister", modes of confession in Crime and Punishment / Julian W. Connolly -- The construction of the novel; Dostoevsky's descriptions; the character and the city / Leonid P. Grossman -- Plot structure and Raskolnikov's oscillations / F. I. Evnin -- The hero in Dostoevsky's art; the idea in Dostoevsky / Mikhail Bakhtin -- Puzzle and mystery; the narrative poles of knowing, Crime and Punishment / Michael Holquist -- Sideshadowing and its possibilities; disease #3; hypothetical time, crime and chronicity / Gary Saul Morson -- Raskolnikov, Karakazov and the etiology of a 'new word' / Claudia Verhoeven -- A triple take: Crime and Punishment in Woody Allen's cinematic universe / Ellen Chances -- -- Serialization of Crime and Punishment in The Russian Herald (1866) -- Selected bibliography.
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