Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment (???????????? ? ?????????) is a novel written in 1866 by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Structure

The novel is divided into six parts with an epilogue. Each part contains between five and eight chapters and the epilogue has two. The entire novel is written from a third person past tense omniscient perspective chiefly from Raskolnikov's point of view though it briefly switches to Dunya, Svidrigailov and Sonya during its course.

Related Topics:
Epilogue - Third person - Past tense - Omniscient - Point of view

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In 1971, an unpublished scene written in first person perspective from Raskolinkov's point of view was released with Dostoevsky's annotated manuscript of the Russian Literary Monuments series. A translation of that scene is available in most modern editions of the novel.

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