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The Sinner and the Saint 2021
The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky, a Crime and Its Punishment is a book written by Kevin Birmingham. It explores the life of Fyodor Dostoevsky and the real-life event that inspired his famous novel, Crime and Punishment.
Birmingham states that the main character Rodion Raskolnikov drew from Pierre François Lacenaire, a French poet who became a murderer.
The Sinner and the Saint represents Birmingham's second book. His initial work, The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses, debuted in 2014 and earned the PEN New England Award in 2015 as well as the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in 2016.
Details
- Publisher
- Allen Lane (UK)
- ISBN
- 9780241235942
- Pages
- 432
- Format
- Print (hardback), Digital
