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Rodion Raskolnikov
Raskolnikov
also: Раскольников
The murderer-protagonist of Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment (1866), invoked here as a model of tormented, quasi-religious passion by a writer eager to dignify a flirtatious moment.
Reading notes
- An Enigmatic Nature §7 Raskolnikov
The murderer-protagonist of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (1866); the writer's invocation of his tortured, quasi-religious kiss is a piece of overwrought literary borrowing that punctures itself by the mismatch with the moment.