The Sinner and the Saint - Dostoevsky, a Crime and Its Punishment

The Sinner and the Saint gives us the story of the creation of a work of literature that has bewitched readers for over a century, and of the two men so central to it: Dostoevsky himself, and Pierre Francois Lacenaire, a notorious murderer and glamorous egoist who charmed and outraged Paris in the 1830s and whose sensational story provided the germ of the novel. As reports of his trial tore through Europe, readers asked themselves: could the instincts of nihilism, the philosophy inspiring a new generation of Russian revolutionaries, also drive a man to murder? Showing how both men''s lives were directed by the intoxicating new ideas swirling around Europe in the nineteenth century, The Sinner and the Saint also reveals why they still appal and entice us today. Thrilling and definitive, this is the story of a masterpiece.<>

Product details

• Authors: Kevin Birmingham, Birmingham Kevin
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9780141981710
• ISBN: 978-0-14-198171-0
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Novel-like biographies; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Slavonic linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, Russia, European History, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, c 1800 to c 1900, HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Biography: writers