Psycho Killer, The Russian Edition

I also liked the epilogue. You have some good ideas on why some may not like it but, heck, it was Dosto's work and he can do as he pleases. Literature is a living thing. Many events can happen that may not be obvious but are often hinted at.

Recall the classic movie The Third Man by Graham Greene. In the book/movie Holly Martins kills Harry Lime. But did he actually do so as the writer Graham Greene indicated at the end of both? No he did not. In 1959 (12 years after the movie and book came out) Harry Lime suddenly appears in modern day Europe - alive and in living color! And the tv story was written by Greene:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Man_(TV_series)

Watch the movie very carefully and you will see that it contained many clues which will make you believe Martins did not kill Lime.


As for the next possible opus, have you read Stephen Crane's classic Maggie, A Girl of the Streets? It was one of my all time faves. Very anti Romantic. Was censored back in the early 1890s because of its realism.

Sounds hep to me. The only book I’ve read by Stephen Crane is Red Badge of Courage. I know nothing about Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, so it sounds like fun. When you mentioned it, the first thing that came popped into my head was Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders. What would you-all think about reading these two books in tandem? Bonus — they’re both in the public domain, so, free to download, woo-hoo. El Sancho digs free stuff.

The full title of Defoe’s book is:

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, & c.
Who was Born in Newgate, and during a Life of continu’d Variety for Threescore Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Year a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv’d Honest, and dies a Penitent. Written from her own Memorandums . . .

If the rest of the book is anything like the title, it’s gotta be good.

I started to read Moll but didn't like it. Reading two at a time might be too much for a dottering, low energy old timer like me. But perhaps after Maggie. Of course, you can get a head start on it and I'll follow along until I catch up as Crane's book is actually quite brief ~ 90 pages or so ~ and can readily be read in a sitting or two.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pgozvRaddE


DOSTOEVSKY'S ST PETERSBURG | Crime and Punishment locations


Miss Elena says, This video is about Fyodor Dostoyevsky and the part of St Petersburg where he lived and where his great novels were written. This part of the city used to be inhabited by criminals and poor people. It's scary and mystical but at the same time attractive in a way. I will tell you about the life of Dostoyevsky in St Petersburg and will show you the spots where the main events of Crime and Punishment took place.

I was thinking, current-events wise, maybe this Luigi Mangione character would’ve better served if he’d read Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment instead of Ted Kazinsky’s Manifesto. He has definitely got some Raskolnikov vibes going on.

Also I don’t see him on any of my Goodreads wanderings. Yay!