Crime and Punishment: Part II, Chapters 4-7

“Life exists! Didn’t I just now experience real life?”

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Hi there, readers!

After our first couple of intense weeks of reading, including last week’s graphic murder, these chapters felt quite a bit calmer. Now we’re into a different kind of tension: will Raskolnikov be caught and what will his mind/soul do to him in the process? It’s still intense, just not in the same way as the first ~150 pages.

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