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From the House of The Dead
From: The Washington Post
Date: 19941127
Author:Michael Dirda
THE MASTER OF PETERSBURG
By J.M. Coetzee
Viking. 250 pp. $21.95
THE NOVELIST Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) once took his young second wife to a desolate area of St. Petersburg. There he showed her the very stone under which Raskolnikov - the self-tortured protagonist of Crime and Punishment - hid the meaningless stuff he had taken after his axe murder of an old woman moneylender. Anna asked her husband why he had ever come to such a desolate spot in the first place. Dostoevsky answered somberly, "The reason that does in fact bring people to secluded places."
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