Crime and Punishment Author: [Russia] Fyodor Dostoyevsky Translator: Yue Lin Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House Douban Foreign Novel Top 100

The novel describes how Raskolnikov, a poor university student, was forced to make a living and poisoned by anarchist ideas. He became mentally ill and killed the old landlady who was a loan shark and her innocent sister, creating a murder case that shocked the whole of Russia. Finally, under the persuasion of a Christian girl named Sonya, he surrendered himself and was sentenced to exile in Siberia. The work focuses on the psychological changes of the protagonist before and after the crime, revealing the difficult life of the lower class people in Russia.

Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), as famous as the great writers Leo Tolstoy and Turgenev, is an outstanding representative of Russian literature. He walked an extremely difficult and complicated life and creative path, and is one of the most complex and contradictory writers in the history of Russian literature. His works are unique and stand out in the brilliant 19th century Russian literary world, occupying a very special position. His major works include "Poor People", "The Insulted and the Injured", "Notes from the Dead House", "Crime and Punishment", "The Idiot", "Demons", "The Brothers Karamazov", etc.