Eyes That See All

Cover of Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky) It's been more than three weeks since I finished Crime and Punishment (C&P). Not a day passes by when I don't relate to something from it. It's a different argument if it is good or bad to be relating to such a book and such unfortunate characters, but what's indisputable is that this book is a masterpiece. Of the few books that I have read, not all of them have the ability to draw me into their own world and make me a live spectator of the story as it unfolded. Unjustified Critique Earlier last year, I had read White Nights, which did not impress me much. For a novella, it felt too layered, the character was too gloomy, and the writing felt forced; glorifying and romanticising a certain loneliness and depression. But after reading C&P, I would like to revisit that book, which I feel I criticised incorrectly, in the wrong context and probably too harshly. Th...