Crime and Punishment
About This Novel
The psychological report of a crime reaches all the deep activities of the human soul. Cao Guowei's classic translation, newly revised in 2025, is a professor at East China Normal University, a senior translator, and the winner of the China Russian Education Outstanding Contribution Award! In the slums of St. Petersburg lived young Raskolnikov, a sensitive law student. He dropped out of school because he couldn't afford the tuition, and a letter from his mother suggested that his sister had made a huge sacrifice for him. In order to get rid of this miserable situation, and to test whether he was a superman who could control the destiny of mankind, he killed the old woman who was a loan shark. The novel uses this criminal case as a framework to touch the deepest part of Russian life in the 1860s, showing people's strong desire to restore humanity when society is stagnant. Dostoevsky called it a "psychological report of a crime."
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