In both novels the narrator walks around the city in a desperate condition, poor, starving and with very little hope of changing this situation. And there are certainly similarities between Hunger and the beginning of Crime and Punishment. Last year I read Hunger by Knut Hamsun, who has been called the Nordic Dostoyevsky. The moral dilemmas and ultimate consequences of committing a crime sounded more up my street than Anna Karenina or War and Peace. I’ve never read a Russian classic before, but I’ve loved Chekhov’s plays from a very young age and I thought the depressing themes, the existential angst and the introspective despair in Russian literature might suit my temperament very well.Īfter a brief scan of the most famous classics, I decided on Crime and Punishment. It felt like more.īut let’s start at the beginning. The audiobook of Crime and Punishment is 22 hours long.
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