Overmastering, distressing, melancholic, and even nihilistic — what’s with the reviews? Do the extraordinary people have the right to murder? Is Raskolnikov an image of Everyman? Wait- what are we even talking about? — By Rithwik Burra
rithwikburra@gmail.com “Raskolnikov, far from being a madman or psychopathic outcast, is an image of Everyman.” The novel Crime and Punishment, according to the critic N. N. Strakhov, was the literary sensation of the year, “The only book the addicts of reading talked about. And when they talked…