I know I read somewhere that his 2nd wife actually wrote wondering if he had murdered someone because one day while they were on a walk he stopped her and told her they were at the place where Raskolnikov had hid the loot and it scared her.
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I know I read somewhere that his 2nd wife actually wrote wondering if he had murdered someone because one day while they were on a walk he stopped her and told her they were at the place where Raskolnikov had hid the loot and it scared her.
No, I'm SURE that he haven't committed murder. :)
I don't know...Maybe he got an inspiration somewhere, by listening the story of someone, some kind of confession, I don't know....But, I think neither do this is true, because the inspiration is for the beginners, and Dostoevsky was a great writer, really. And that's why the story of C&P is so strong that it makes you think it's written by the experience. ;)
Who knows, but IMO, he had a gambling problem and gambled his wife's ring away...
In a way that could very well feel the same afterwards and he could've drawn upon that - ie a cocky bastard looking for gains/better life, but only too late does he realize he sacrificed his family's trust...and the tension of hiding it and deciding when they'll find out vs. you telling them.
No, I personally don't feel Dostoevsky committed murder. However, since he did serve time in a hard work prison and was sentanced to death; I think that he got a chance to know a few murderers. That, coupled with his love/hate relationship with Suslova, probably generated a lot of thought patterns in that direction. This is clearly evident in "The Idiot" and the character of Roginin.