I would definitely NOT marry this guy! 😉 It was a captivating and even amusing read, though perhaps Petrowitsj's terrible personality is a bit all too obvious and the trick of having Raskolnikows mother actually saying the opposite of what she writes gets overused a little. I was intrigued by the end -- why does Raskolnikow have an evil smile on his face? Dostojewski knows how to grip his readers and make them want to read on.
Glad to hear! We get Raskolnikov's thoughts about the letter in the next chapter. It's very clever writing as a way of moving the plot along I thought, introducing lots of new characters with exposition through a letter. As you say, he makes the reader want to keep going, so in some ways a chapter a week is a challenge to stick to!
I would definitely NOT marry this guy! 😉 It was a captivating and even amusing read, though perhaps Petrowitsj's terrible personality is a bit all too obvious and the trick of having Raskolnikows mother actually saying the opposite of what she writes gets overused a little. I was intrigued by the end -- why does Raskolnikow have an evil smile on his face? Dostojewski knows how to grip his readers and make them want to read on.
Glad to hear! We get Raskolnikov's thoughts about the letter in the next chapter. It's very clever writing as a way of moving the plot along I thought, introducing lots of new characters with exposition through a letter. As you say, he makes the reader want to keep going, so in some ways a chapter a week is a challenge to stick to!