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Viva Modern Critical Interpretations: Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment is an authoritative commentary on the text of the masterpiece by the Russian writer. The book presents students of literature with detailed notes on the themes and characters in the novel. It helps students learn how to analyse the plot and the driving motives behind the characters for their actions. It also presents questions which readers must put across to understand the hidden meanings in the book. An authoritative look into the world of Dostoevsky’s literary genius, the text allows students to look beyond the text and see the bigger picture as the master was prone to do throughout his works. About Harold Bloom Harold Bloom is an American literary critic, currently the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. Dr. Bloom is a graduate of Cornell University, and completed his Ph.D. at Yale in 1955. He is a founding patron of Raiston College, and worked for several years at the New York University as Berg Professor. A prolific writer and critic, he has also written: Shelley's Mythmaking, Yeats, Walter Peter: Marius the Epicurean, The Literary Criticisms of John Ruskin, The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation, The Book of J: Translated from the Hebrew, and The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages.