Description
This is a Boundary Bay Classics edition of the classic novel El crimen y el castigo (Crime and Punishment) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, presented in this Spanish-language translation by Pedro Pedraza y Páez. The novel follows Rodión Raskólnikov, an impoverished former law student in Saint Petersburg who convinces himself that certain crimes are justifiable when committed by "extraordinary" men for higher purposes, and murders an elderly pawnbroker to test the theory. Once the deed is done, he is consumed by paranoia, guilt, and mental anguish as a shrewd magistrate slowly closes in and his own conscience threatens to undo him. First published in 1866, the novel is widely regarded as one of the towering achievements of world literature and a foundational text of psychological fiction.
