Dostoevsky's Bells. Notes of a Mad Literary Critic

Sergey Nosov created a novel where the central figure is Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment.” The main hero is a mad literary scholar who believes he is the work itself and writes letters to his psychiatrist, insisting that Raskolnikov’s story couldn’t have existed. Nosov, a well-known writer and researcher of St. Petersburg, presents a book full of unexpected discoveries and observations. He offers a fresh look at Dostoevsky and his characters, discussing themes of love, debts, and the paradox of the existence of “Crime and Punishment” itself as a literary miracle.