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2016-05-27 21:40:18 Post No. 8090707
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2016-05-27 21:40:18
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Lets give this a go, we could really do with more close reading on /lit/. Write a paragraph discussing in any fashion you like about the last chapter/sit down with book you're reading, fiction or non-fiction and your take of it.
Hopefully we can get a more active thread going instead of a bunch of short lived threads of similar close readings.
I've just read Part Two Chapter IV of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, I'm starting to believe the character of Raskolnikov killed the old woman as a way really of making sense in the world of his own experience of self pity and paranoia, it seems to me that the only difference in his psyche through the transition between the murder and how he was before is only that before he had nothing to point towards to explain his alienation, self loathing and suspicion of everyone else. Its a sort of reconciliation between his estrangement from humanity he felt in his childhood dream observing them beating the horse to death, in a derranged fashion he's found a way to feel he is associated to his fellow man again.
