... forcing him to commit a ruthless act of murder. Written in the early 1860's and published in 1866, Crime and Punishment brought about a new era of Russian literature, Realism. Crime and Punishment replaced the elegant style of Romanticism with fictional realism, depicting individual behavior and human development. Dostoevsky's pragmatic approach to writing influenced twentieth-century ... Dostoevsky writes "hasty" with "clearly neglected language". Dostoevsky defies all elements of literary convention, concentrating primarily on the content of his novel rather than the fundamental practi...

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