Crime and Punishment Analysis - How the Book Was Created

My Crime and Punishment analysis is that Dostoevsky found himself in serious debt which was not only his due to gambling but also his late brothers Mikhail's debt. In absolute desperation, he signed an agreement with Stellovsky that if he did not complete a manuscript by November he would in turn allow Stellovsky all his past and future rights on his work. The only way he could escape his creditors was to flee.My analysis has two specific points. Firstly, the novel was concerned with drunkenness. Secondly, while he was in prison, he had an idea of exploring the psychological factors of a crime. Dostoevsky thought that he could complete the "heavy drinking" part of the book quickly but he became engrossed in the psychological factors of crime. Thus, the book was hard to write and it was long.Once he completed this he sent a detailed script to Mikhail Katkov in 1865 who at that time was the editor of the Russian Herald. The book basically explained how a criminal commits murder
while under the influence of day dreaming ideas or "ideas that float in the air" as he put it.Dostoevsky's ideas came from the Russian radical social ideologies, with emphasis on Nihilism which was prevalent at the same time Dostoevsky began working on Crime and Punishment. His experimentation with radicalism and imprisonment along with his suffering vastly impacted Crime and Punishment. His arguments revolved around the western influences as well as the emphasis on Russian rationalism which were not only incompatible but even dangerous. This made the book very "deep" according to the critics of the time.Some final points...By December 1865 Dostoevsky informed his friend Baron that he had already written 6 chapters of his novel and then confessed that he burnt it as the novel was not pleasing to him and that the new version had far more of the main characters original traits. In November 1866 was Crime and Punishment completed and published with great success.

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