Mejor Libro | Dostoievski

She did not finish the book that day. She would not finish it for weeks. But when she finally closed the shop door and stepped out into the damp Buenos Aires night, the weight she carried felt different. It was no longer a burden of meaningless pain. It was a weight she was meant to carry, to wrestle with, and perhaps, eventually, to transcend.

"This... this is The Brothers Karamazov ." dostoievski mejor libro

The novel’s greatness lies in its dissection of a dangerous idea. Raskolnikov is not a common criminal but an intellectual. He has conceived a chilling theory: that extraordinary men (Napoleon, for instance) have the right to transgress ordinary morality in the service of a higher goal. By murdering the "useless old woman," he seeks to prove he is a Napoleon, not a trembling louse. She did not finish the book that day