Join John for a discussion of Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
“What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?”
Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov is an impoverished former student and intellectual, beset by monomania and infected with new ideas about man and society. Thinking himself above the moral laws that govern lesser people, Raskolnikov hatches a plan to kill a pawnbroker and use her money for the good of society. Tormented in body and soul by guilt from his crime, Raskolnikov begins a journey that brings him to question his ideas about mankind, nihilism, and moral law, and to accept suffering as the price to pay for his own redemption.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) is widely considered one of the greatest novelists in world literature, having penned classics such as Poor Folk, The Possessed, and The Brothers Karamazov. In Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky explored themes of morality, psychology, sociology, and redemption with the richness and nuance of a first-rate artist and intellectual.
Pick up your copy of the book from the front desk! New people always welcome.
Open to adults and teens.