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Bookpossum · 05-20-2014, 06:32 PM

Thanks for that Belle. I wasn't imagining it after all! The other thing that I omitted to say in terms of reminding me of Crime and Punishment was the violence, for example where Razumov beat the drunken peasant.

(I should also confess that I hated Crime and Punishment and only stuck with it because it was a set text. So it sounds as if I'm in sympathy with Conrad, at least about Dostoievsky.)

05-20-2014, 06:32 PM	#16
Bookpossum Snoozing in the sun Posts: 10,137 Karma: 115423645 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Melbourne, Australia Device: iPad Mini, Kobo Touch	Thanks for that Belle. I wasn't imagining it after all! The other thing that I omitted to say in terms of reminding me of Crime and Punishment was the violence, for example where Razumov beat the drunken peasant. (I should also confess that I hated Crime and Punishment and only stuck with it because it was a set text. So it sounds as if I'm in sympathy with Conrad, at least about Dostoievsky.)