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Book Review - Crime and Punishment (1866), by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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While I write this, I am carefully going to choose my words to suitably articulate my thoughts about this book. This is my first Dostoevsky book (yes, yes), and before I can say more, let me tell you that Dostoevsky isn’t extraordinary, he is way more than that. No such thorough description and basis in Literature was attempted in the late 19th Century as in this one. Neurologists like  Sigmund Freud  had a deep appreciation for the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky as a writer whose impeccable approach to the mental analysis of abnormal people under unusual circumstances, was the basis for his research. Freud hailed Dostoevsky’s ability to understand human psychology and portray complicated psychological states and inner conflicts and many more dark aspects of human nature. What follows is not a critical evaluation, but rather a record of a thoroughly personal experience. So, what's the book about? The novel is designed around Dostoevsky’s view of his culture’s ideas about crime and ment