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Crime and Punishment: The Delusional Man Who Made the World Delusional

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: This paper examines the unverified premise at the foundation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment — that Raskolnikov is intelligent — and traces how 160 years of readers, scholars, and institutions accepted this self-proclamation without questioning it. Using only the novel's internal architecture and Dostoevsky's own documented words, it maps four surfaces of a single structure — the title, Porfiry, Sonya, and the plague dream — all pointing at the same verdict that was present before page one. This paper examines Fyodor Dostoevsky as the origin of the mechanism it describes.

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19020784

Author: sera, Bella

Language: English

Topic: Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7135388244

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