Sign up for Crime and Punishment!
No, silly! I don’t wan’t you to sign up to to commit a crime and receive punishment (unless that’s your thing), but I want you to read Crime and Punishment with us over at Unputdownables!
We are reading at a leisurely pace over three months – that means less than 50 pages a week. We are going to hash everything out starting each Friday (our conversations often last all week). There is absolutely nothing to be afraid of – as you can see from this pie chart on cracked.com, Dosty was a regular guy with problems just like you and me. There was a comic book made out of C&P, starring Batman, for goodness sakes!
Our friend Fyodor says things like:
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
See? Nothing to worry about!
I hope you will consider being a fool with us, and join the Crime and Punishment read-a-long!
I didn’t get further than “The garret was under the roof of a high, five story house…” of my copy before I decided I should go get the translation you recommended. So I am all set.
Neat! I read that sentence in the Pevear & Volokhonsky – closet instead of garret — I picture something different with each of those words for sure.
Yeah, closet is better. Garret is redundant to me. I had looked up the new edition while waiting for book club the night before, but hadn’t tried mine yet. After having a bad time of Anna Karenina some years ago, figured best to go with a recommended translation.
That pie chart is fabulous! I read the intro to C&P and had to laugh about how he had to “contend with…his own pathological addiction to gambling.” I don’t know why it struck me funny, but it was almost too much–the kind of depressing that feels so distinctly Russian.
Yes, I was thinking “where is the wedge for vodka!?”
But gosh – Siberia! I can’t even begin to fathom.