Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866 · exile

Dostoevsky's 1866 novel. Raskolnikov, a student who has stopped attending lectures, works out a theory that extraordinary men may step over the law, and tests it on a pawnbroker with an axe. The rest is four hundred pages of a man who cannot stop talking to the detective who suspects him, in a St Petersburg summer that never gets dark.

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   St Petersburg

   A garret off Stolyarny Lane that the narrator calls a cupboard, a landlady he owes money to, and a young man who has stopped going to lectures and started reasoning himself toward something he has not admitted he intends.

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   The Haymarket

   The market district of taverns, pawnshops and lodging houses where the whole novel happens - where he kills the pawnbroker and her sister, and where Sonya tells him to kneel and kiss the earth in the square.

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   Omsk

   The market district of taverns, pawnshops and lodging houses where the whole novel happens - where he kills the pawnbroker and her sister, and where Sonya tells him to kneel and kiss the earth.