![]() ![]() HIS EARLY WORK WAS PRAISED FOR ITS PSYCHOLOGICAL INSIGHT. ![]() Petersburg in 1834 and achieving the rank of sublieutenant, Dostoevsky resigned to devote himself completely to his craft. Despite graduating from the Academy of Military Engineering in St. Dostoevsky, however, had always been drawn to gothic and Romantic literature and longed to try his hand as a writer. The future author's father, a retired surgeon with a stern and rigid personality, arranged for his son to train for a career as a military engineer. His subsequent descent into guilt-ridden anguish and spiritual turmoil has led many to regard Crime and Punishment as one of fiction’s more profound psychological works. In Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1866 novel, a former student named Raskolnikov plans and perpetrates a savage murder in order to test his theory that he is an extraordinary man. ![]()
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