Fyodor Dostoevsky

Dostoevsky’s 1864 novella argues against rational self-interest, then shows what that argument looks like in a person’s life. Publication history, themes, critics, and the film versions.

Dostoevsky’s 1866 novel of a student who murders a pawnbroker to test a theory: how it was written, what it argues, what critics have fought over, and how to choose a translation.