
Crime and Punishment (Audio Connoisseur Edition)
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Charlton Griffin
Raskolnikov the intellectual divides humanity into two types: the meek, submissive mass of mankind and the "Supermen". The Nietzschean Superman can violate any law or principle to attain his beneficial ends. Since Raskolnikov has allied himself with the Superman, he intends to prove his superiority by committing a murder without remorse by eliminating an "undesirable" person.
The novel's central question is whether it is justifiable to commit an atrocity in order to improve humanity. Dostoevsky shows us that a person cannot control and direct his life solely with his reason and intellect, that free will is limited. Listen as one of the finest psychological novels ever written unfolds.
Translated by Constance Garnett.
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What did you love best about Crime and Punishment (Audio Connoisseur Edition)?
Dostoevsky's novel is so rich in its moral complexities. It is also virtually double plotted and almost Dickensian in its narrative breadth and social consciousness. If one has read it before, one perhaps forgets that the axe murderer, Raskolnikov, and the detective, Porfiry Petrovich, are not the only characters. The large canvas includes the professionally licensed prostitute, Sonia; the child molester, Svidrigailov; the pompous manipulator, Luzhin; and the self loathing alcoholic, Marmelodov. The book abounds in fantastic scenes, some of them (as in the case of Katarina's dinner party) hilarious in a characterically dark Russian way.What did you like best about this story?
It is endlessly thought provoking and richly detailed. I love the grotesque humor -- such as Raskolnikov's sister, Dunya, trying to shoot her tormentor at close range and repeatedly missing. But it is really the central hero's Superman complex that fascinates the most. And the fact it really takes him most of the novel to get over it.Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Charlton Griffin?
Despite his ultra-dignified and impeccable English diction, Charlton Griffin cannot resist adopting an artificially modulated melodramatic tone, and his falsetto characterizations of the women make them all sound exactly like Mickey Mouse. If not Mickey, then Minnie. It is absolutely intolerable to this listener! It's like hearing Francis Flute the Bellows-Mender play Thisbe.Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
The book is grim with many strokes of black Russian humor. The fact that Edward Snowden's Russian lawyer gave him this novel to read in the Moscow Airport Transit zone is a joke worthy of a scene in Dostoevsky! The book's many comic moments -- in fact the whole ironic Russian mind-set that informs them -- go over most people's heads. I do not find anything in it moving. It's all grotesque. Look for something moving and sentimental stuff elsewhere. That said, Dunya and the charming student, Razumikhin, become a touching couple.Any additional comments?
The novel is an essential masterpiece. The production is professionally done. But with all the narrator's women sounding like squeaking mice, you may want to scream and open a real book instead. By the way, that's Bartok being used for the occasional bits of music.A complex masterpiece; often irritating narration!
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Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
yes it was.What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?
rodia second guessing himself. the vagueness of some of the events. there was so much potential. i find the russian characters having more than one name annoying and consusing as in anna karennina.Which scene was your favorite?
when rodia was at the pawn lady's and the events afterward.Could you see Crime and Punishment (Audio Connoisseur Edition) being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?
a movie yes. tv series no. i have no idea who could star. they would need to be more specific.Any additional comments?
i have concluded that russian authors seem to be awfully wordy saying too much and not enough. it was not a waste of time but just not for me. i wanted to read it and i did. the naration was very good.this story could had so much potential
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Great plot of human turmoil, beware.
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amazing narrator
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Perfect narrator!
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As for the author, Dostoyevsky, all I can say is that the story could not have been written without deep, real, personal experiences which are difficult to recreate in the way that he does. I would not want to delete a single explanation or description given throughout the story as it would undermine the overall experience.
A true classic, and very satisfactorily relayed.
Involving and convincing.
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Crime and Punishment
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Fantastic!
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it's a classic
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Crime Pays for the Reader
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