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Crime and Punishment: Part III

"Really all of us behave almost in a deranged manner"

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Jeremy Anderberg
Sep 08, 2024
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Porfiry Petrovich

Hello, readers!

This week, we read the entirety of Part III, which, by the end, set in motion the cat-and-mouse game between Raskolnikov and Investigator Petrovich. There wasn’t much plot this week, but the psychological insights and the entrance of the detective piece of the story held my interest just fine.

It’s also worth noting tha…

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