"One Russian Foot of Ideal Place: Dostoyevsky's Trilogy of Crime and Punishment" Author: [Russia] Dostoyevsky Publisher: Beijing Institute of Technology Press

* Works of Dostoyevsky, the pioneer of crime literature, the founder of modernist literature, the representative of the depth of Russian literature, the spiritual mentor of masters such as Nietzsche, Sartre, Hemingway, Kafka, Zweig, Hesse, etc.

*Dostoevsky is a master figure in the Russian literary world and the history of world literature in the 19th century. He is known as the three giants of Russian literature together with Leo Tolstoy and Turgenev. He and Leo Tolstoy are known as the twin peaks in the history of Russian literature. They are highly praised by the literary critics as "Tolstoy represents the breadth of Russian literature, while Dostoevsky represents the depth of Russian literature". Philosopher Nietzsche, psychologist Freud, as well as many thinkers and writers such as Sartre, Camus, Hesse and Woolf regard him as their spiritual mentor.

*Crime and Punishment is a confession that reveals the psychology of a criminal. It won Dostoyevsky worldwide fame and is a masterpiece that established Dostoyevsky's position in the world literary world. It was praised by Faulkner, Camus, Kafka, Gorky, Lu Xun, and Haruki Murakami.

*"The Idiot" was praised by Russian literary giant Leo Tolstoy as "a diamond whose value is rivaled by thousands of diamonds in the eyes of those who understand it"; German writer and Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse highly praised it for showing the spiritual dilemma faced by all mankind; it has been made into more than a dozen versions of film and television works.

*As Dostoyevsky's last work, "The Brothers Karamazov" tells a prophetic tragedy in which society, family, morality and human nature are intricately intertwined. It was highly praised by European psychologist and founder of psychoanalysis Freud, British novelist and playwright Maugham, and was praised by Haruki Murakami as the ultimate template of literary ideal.

Crime and Punishment

In the 1860s, in St. Petersburg, the capital of Russia, Raskolnikov, a young law student, dropped out of school for many days and lived alone in a small attic. Living in isolation and influenced by the "superman theory", he killed the old loan shark and her sister. While hiding from place to place, he met some people and experienced a series of encounters. In the end, he decided...

"idiot"

The declining nobleman, Duke Myshkin, suffered from epilepsy since childhood. With the help of a kind-hearted person, he was treated in Switzerland and recovered. After the death of his sponsor, he received a letter of inheritance, so he embarked on the journey back home. In China, he met Rogozhin, a rich young man who was madly pursuing the peerless beauty Nastasia, Ganya, a clerk who valued money, the wife of General Yepanchin, a relative of the same clan, and all kinds of people... He tried his best to save these people who were morally deficient and unaware of it, but in return he was incomprehensible and ridiculed by the world. In the end, the innocent and kind-hearted him ran out of energy and became an "idiot" with only a body left.

The Brothers Karamazov (Part 1)

The landlord, the old Karamazov, is a greedy, cunning, and alcoholic man. He has two wives and three sons, Mitya, Ivan, and Alyosha, but he has never raised any of them. When the eldest son Mitya grows up, he asks the old Karamazov for his own property, but the former uses despicable means to block and refuse. The father and son are jealous of the beautiful woman Grushenka and they are entangled. Many conflicts in the family are intensified...

The Brothers Karamazov (Part 2)

The conflict between the eldest son Mitya and his father, the old Karamazov, intensified. The second son Ivan, the youngest son Alyosha, the male cook Smerdyakov and Mitya's fiancée Katerina were all involved. In the panic and worry of everyone, the old Karamazov died. Who killed the old Karamazov? The story slowly unfolds around this question, staging a tragedy about society, family, morality and human nature.