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Crime and Punishment
noun
- a novel (1866) by Feodor Dostoevsky.
Crime and Punishment
- (1866) A novel by Feodor Dostoyevsky about the poor student Raskolnikov, who kills two old women because he believes that he is beyond the bounds of good and evil. The psychological novel examines Raskolnikov's anguished mind before, during, and after the crime.
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A floor work titled “Sidewalk” fills its titular form with the shredded pages of “Crime and Punishment” and floods them from above with projections.
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