Crime and Punishment

　　俄國文豪杜斯妥也夫斯基最深刻、最富現實意義的作品。
　　以犀利的筆觸無情地剖析當代俄國的社會現實，
　　深入觸及社會底層的各個角落，
　　走投無路，就是本書的主旋律……

　 　十九世紀俄國大文豪杜斯妥也夫斯基的代表作之一。本書描寫一心想成為拿破崙式的人物、認定自己是個超人的窮大學生拉斯柯爾尼科夫，受無政府主義思想毒 害，為生計所迫，殺死放高利貸的房東老太婆和她的無辜的妹妹，製造了一起震驚全俄的兇殺案。經歷了一場內心痛苦的懺悔後，他最終在基督徒索尼雅的規勸下， 投案自首，被判流放西伯利亞。

　　本書著重表現主角行兇後良心受到譴責，內心深感孤獨、恐懼的精神狀態，刻畫他犯罪前後的心理變化。小說一方面描繪了俄國下層人民的悲慘生活，揭露貴族社會的罪惡；一方面也宣揚逆來順受，從宗教中求解脫的思想。

　　本書中譯本<<罪與罰>>由遠足文化出版

　　A towering classic of Russian literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is a compelling story of a brutal double murder and its aftermath.

　　An impoverished ex-student, Rodion Raskolnikov, kills a pawnbroker and her sister, apparently for financial gain. But as he encounters friends and family, strangers and adversaries, Raskolnikov is compelled to face the true forces that have led him to murder. His struggle with himself and those around him becomes a battle of the individual against society, radicalism against tradition, and ultimately the will of man against the mysteries of divine providence. A sensation in its day, Crime and Punishment has left an indelible stamp on the world of literature.

　　This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Crime and Punishment is translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett, with an afterword by Oliver Francis.

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杜斯妥也夫斯基（1821-1881）

　　俄國作家，著有《窮人》、《罪與罰》、《白痴》、《卡拉馬佐夫兄弟》等作品，影響了二十世紀多位作家，包括福克納、卡繆、卡夫卡等，和托爾斯泰、屠格涅夫並稱為俄羅斯文學「三巨頭」。

　　Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in Moscow in 1821 and studied in St Petersburg. His first work of fiction was the epistolary novel Poor Folk (1846), which met with a generally favourable response, but his subsequent works in the same period were less enthusiastically received. In 1849 Dostoevsky was arrested as a member of the socialist Petrashevsky circle, and suffered four years in a Siberian penal settlement followed by another four years of enforced military service. He returned to writing in the late 1850s and it was during the last twenty years of his life that he wrote the iconic works, Notes from the Underground (1864), Crime and Punishment (1866) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). He died in 1881.