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The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece [Audiobook]
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The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece [Audiobook]
English | ASIN: B08X4XH97S | 2021 | 15 hours and 45 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 858 MB
Author: Kevin Birmingham
Narrator: Robert Petkoff
The Sinner and the Saint is the deeply researched and immersive tale of how Dostoevsky came to write this great murder story — and why it changed the world. As a young man, Dostoevsky was a celebrated writer, but his involvement with the radical politics of his day condemned him to a long Siberian exile. There, he spent years studying the criminals that were his companions. Upon his return to St. Petersburg in the 1860s, he fought his way through gambling addiction, debilitating debt, epilepsy, the deaths of those closest to him, and literary banishment to craft an enduring classic.
The germ of Crime and Punishment came from the sensational story of Pierre François Lacenaire, a notorious murderer who charmed and outraged Paris in the 1830s. Lacenaire was a glamorous egoist who embodied the instincts that lie beneath nihilism, a western-influenced philosophy inspiring a new generation of Russian revolutionaries. Dostoevsky began creating a Russian incarnation of Lacenaire, a character who could demonstrate the errors of radical politics and ideas. His name would be Raskolnikov.