A curse on Dostoevsky
By: Atiq Rahimi ; translated from the French by Polly McLean
Contributors: McLean, Polly
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780701187187; 9781448105205
Subjects: Fiction
Work titles: Maudit soit Dostoïevski
Description: Rassoul's world consists of little more than a squalid rented room - strewn with books by Dostoevsky, relics from his days as a student of Russian Literature at Leningrad - and his beloved fiancee Sophia, for whom he would do anything. So when he finds himself committing a murder, axe in hand, as if re-enacting the opening of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, his identification with the novel's anti-hero is complete: Rassoul is Raskolnikov, transplanted to late twentieth-century Kabul.
Notes: Translated from the French.

Translated from the French.