"Will I really - I mean, really - actually take an axe, start bashing her on the
head, smash her skull to pieces?...Will I really slip in sticky, warm blood, fo
rce the lock, steal, tremble, hide, all soaked in blood...axe in hand?...Lord, w
ill I really?" (Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year 2014). This new tran
slation of Dostoevsky's 'psychological record of a crime' gives his dark masterp
iece of murder and pursuit a renewed vitality, expressing its jagged, staccato u
rgency and fevered atmosphere as never before. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky wa
s born in Moscow in 1821.
