Chapter 1

"Gosto disso! que se enganem. Eh a unica superioridade dos homens sobre os outros seres. Eh assim que se chega a verdade. Sou homem, e me engano porque sou homem. Nao se chega a nenhuma verdade sem nos enganarmos pelo menos quatorze vezes...."

"Um erro original vale muito mais do que uma verdade banal"

"Todos, todos sem excecao eh o que lhes digo, nos achamos no que se refere a ciencia, a cultura, ao pensamento ... numa classe prepartoria de liceu e contentamo-nos de viver com o espirito dos outros"

either the mother or the sister's response: "Oh, meu Deus, nao sei de nada!"

At this stage I think Raskolnikov is very weak, imagine how much stress he has been through, now imagine how much burden his mother is going through

Razumíkhin fell in love at first sight by Dounia

"Quando pensa que ele esta apressado e todo mundo o incomoda, ele fica entretato deitado sem fazer coisa nenhuma"

"Entretanto, essa pobreza ostensiva, de usa aparencia dava, as duas, um ar de diginidade especial, como acontence, em regra, com os que sabem usa as coisas humildes"

Chapter 2

" Sentia que tal convivio - essa mae, essa irma que revia, apos tres anos de sepracao, esse tom familiar, intimo, da conversacao, quando ele se achava num estado de incapacidade para falar o que quer que fosse - estava a ponto de ficar insuportavel

• lembra vovo carminha

"Corou e um clarao de colera, brilhou-lhe nos olhos. - Realizaras turdo? perguntou com um sorrizo mordaz"

• this guy is becoming a psicopath

"Piotr Petrovitch nao pretende esconder que recebeu pouca instrucao e ate se orgulha por ser fruto do proprio esforco, observou Avdotia Romanovan, magoada com a atitude que o irmao tomava"

Chapter 3

askolnikov was sitting in the opposite corner, fully dressed and carefully washed and combed, as he had not been for some time past.

• that's very weird, I have never seen him like this

Raskolnikov really was almost well, as compared with his condition the day before, but he was still pale, listless, and sombre. He looked like a wounded man or one who has undergone some terrible physical suffering. His brows were knitted, his lips compressed, his eyes feverish. He spoke little and reluctantly, as though performing a duty, and there was a restlessness in his movements.

• once again we see the punishment of crime and punishment

Zossimov, watching and studying his patient with all the zest of a young doctor beginning to practise, noticed in him no joy at the arrival of his mother and sister, but a sort of bitter, hidden determination to bear another hour or two of inevitable torture.

• interesting how everything in his life even the presence

of his mom and daughter became a suffering

Zossimov, who had begun his sage advice partly to make an effect before the ladies, was certainly somewhat mystified, when, glancing at his patient, he observed unmistakable mockery on his face.

• this is very unexpected and scary, he is obviously turning

into a psycopath, it's funny how killing someone make you not care about anything, he feels free from social norms and good sense

What generous impulses he has, and how simply, how delicately he put an end to all the misunderstanding with his sister—simply by holding out his hand at the right minute and looking at her like that....

• right now I don't know if this is the good side he still

owns or already a machiavelic manipulation

"That's enough, Rodya, I am sure that everything you do is very good," said his mother, delighted.
"Don't be too sure," he answered, twisting his mouth into a smile.
A silence followed. There was a certain constraint in all this conversation, and in the silence, and in the reconciliation, and in the forgiveness, and all were feeling it.

• very interesting of not following the dynamics of the social

norms, by doing so, the clima becomes very weird, specially because people don't know how to react

"Do you know, Rodya, Marfa Petrovna is dead," Pulcheria Alexandrovna suddenly blurted out.

"Not at all. Quite the contrary indeed. With her, he was always very patient, considerate even. In fact, all those seven years of their married life he gave way to her, too much so indeed, in many cases. All of a sudden he seems to have lost patience."

• interesing the non linearity of human behaviour, as

described in every single book from Taleb

"Why, are you all afraid of me?" he asked, with a constrained smile.

• completely sem vergonha

Again that awful sensation he had known of late passed with deadly chill over his soul. Again it became suddenly plain and perceptible to him that he had just told a fearful lie—that he would never now be able to speak freely of everything—that he would never again be able to speak of anything to anyone. The anguish of this thought was such that for a moment he almost forgot himself. He got up from his seat, and not looking at anyone walked towards the door.

• very dramatic and intense, once again we see a new form

of punishment, this book should be called one crime, a million punishments

"Thank God; I was afraid the same thing as yesterday was beginning again," said Pulcheria Alexandrovna, crossing herself.

I do not withdraw from my chief point. It is me or Luzhin. If I am a scoundrel, you must not be. One is enough. If you marry Luzhin, I cease at once to look on you as a sister."

• ele eh muito teimoso

Raskolnikov said: In all this I see a too hasty desire to slander me and to raise dissension between us. It is expressed again in legal jargon, that is to say, with a too obvious display of the aim, and with a very naïve eagerness. He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough.

• Luzin is underestimating his oponent

Chapter 4

At that moment the door was softly opened, and a young girl walked into the room, looking timidly about her. Everyone turned towards her with surprise and
curiosity. At first sight, Raskolnikov did not recognise her. It was Sofya Semyonovna Marmeladov

Unexpectedly finding the room full of people, she was not so much embarrassed as completely overwhelmed with shyness, like a little child.

• oh my god life is very hard, imagine someone

like her to be prositutue, the only think I can infer is that whenever she is having sex with her clients it must be very painful to her

All this passed vaguely and fleetingly through his brain, but looking at her more intently, he saw that the humiliated creature was so humiliated that he felt suddenly sorry for her. When she made a movement to retreat in terror, it sent a pang to his heart.

• parabens

In spite of her eighteen years, she looked almost a little girl—almost a child. And in some of her gestures, this childishness
seemed almost absurd.

• so a murderer is going to marry an innocent child

You gave us everything yesterday," Sonia said suddenly, in reply, in a loud rapid whisper; and again she looked down in confusion. Her lips and chin were trembling once more. She had been struck at once by Raskolnikov's poor surroundings, and now these words broke out spontaneously.

• this story brings to much anxiety and perplexity to

the audience, because there is something wrong with Raskolnikov, which explains all his weirdness, and since they don't know about that everything seems surprisings

Do you know, Dounia, I was looking at you two. You are the very portrait of him, and not so much in face as in soul. You are both melancholy, both morose and hot‐tempered, both haughty and both generous....

• incompatibilidade de gemeos

"I have a presentiment, Dounia. Well, you may believe it or not, but as soon as she came in, that very minute, I felt that she was the chief cause of the trouble...."

• it's crazy the motherly instinct

"And Pyotr Petrovitch is a contemptible slanderer," Dounia snapped out, suddenly.

He was inquiring for people who had pawned things, and I have some pledges there, too—trifles—a ring my sister gave me as a keepsake when I left home

• if the people around him look closely, every moment

he is giving hints about being involved in the murder

"If you have to go now," Sonia was beginning, not looking at Razumihin at all, and still more embarrassed.

• oh my god this is ridiculous she is still embarassed

She was not capable at that instant of noticing an unknown gentleman who was watching her and following at her heels.

• damn it, that's crazy, that's so crazy

He had a broad, rather pleasant face with high cheek‐bones and a fresh colour, not often seen in Petersburg.

• interesting introduction of the character, we are hearing

about him before knowing who is him, which adds mystery

How the fuck this guy lives closes to sonya and wears good and fashionable clothes

"We are neighbours," he went on gaily. "I only came to town the day before yesterday. Good‐bye for the present."
Sonia made no reply; the door opened and she slipped in. She felt for some reason ashamed and uneasy.

• who is this guy?

He is an intelligent fellow, very much so indeed, but he has his own range of ideas.... He is incredulous, sceptical, cynical... he likes to impose on people, or rather to make fun of them

• Porfiry seems like a bad guy

Last year he cleared up a case of murder in which the police had hardly a clue. He is very, very anxious to make your acquaintance!

• this makes me feel interested about their meeting,

because thy are both smart like just like L and kira

Both were silent. Razumihin was more than ecstatic and Raskolnikov perceived it with repulsion.

• Razumihin is a very positive guy, he sees everything

as something good

"Listen, listen, listen, this is serious.... What next, you fiend!" Razumihin was utterly overwhelmed, turning cold with horror. "What will you tell them? Come, brother... foo! what a pig you are!"

• damn he really fell in love very quickly by Dounia, it was

love at first sight, I think falling in love at first sight it is very much like Razumihin personality you know? He is a bit impulsive

"You are like a summer rose. And if only you knew how it suits you; a Romeo over six foot high! And how you've washed to‐day—you cleaned your nails, I declare. Eh? That's something unheard of! Why, I do believe you've got pomatum on your hair! Bend down."

• I don't think Rashkolnikov would be a bully before the

accident, in some way he got better after the murder

Chapter 5

"There must have been very grave grounds for it, if he is so furious at the word," Porfiry laughed.

• he doesn't seem like such a bad guy after all

carefully making his voice tremble, "that the watch was lost, she would be in despair! You know what women are!"

• Raskolnikov really is changing, he is even becoming an

actor

"I heard that too. I heard, indeed, that you were in great distress about something. You look pale still."

• damn it, it's very obvious that is clearly a potential

candidate of the murderer

"What next! He was unconscious and delirious all yesterday. Would you believe, Porfiry, as soon as our backs were turned, he dressed, though he could hardly stand, and gave us the slip and went off on a spree somewhere till midnight, delirious all the time! Would you believe it! Extraordinary!"

• Ramuzhini really doesn't help

"And Nikodim Fomitch was telling me to‐day," put in Porfiry Petrovitch, "that he met you very late last night in the lodging of a man who had been run over."

"Come, strike me openly, don't play with me like a cat with a mouse. It's hardly civil, Porfiry Petrovitch, but perhaps I won't allow it! I shall get up and throw the whole truth in your ugly faces, and you'll see how I despise you." He could hardly breathe.

• interestig because most people would be fear of being

discovered, but he becomes angry, showig another side of psycopathy

Razumihin is sitting here, why does he see nothing? That innocent blockhead never does see anything!

• he really is a metaphor for good in this book, in

a certain way

I am not wrong. I'll show you their pamphlets. Everything with them is 'the influence of environment,' and nothing else. Their favourite phrase! From which it follows that, if society is normally organised, all crime will cease at once, since there will be nothing to protest against and all men will become righteous in one instant. Human nature is not taken into account, it is excluded, it's not supposed to exist!

• very interesting how old this debate is

That's why they so dislike the living process of life; they don't want a living soul! The living soul demands life, the soul won't obey the rules of mechanics, the soul is an object of suspicion, the soul is retrograde!

• very interesting, sometimes we forgot the intersection

between socialism and brave new world

The phalanstery is ready, indeed, but your human nature is not ready for the phalanstery—it wants life, it hasn't completed its vital process, it's too soon for the graveyard

Logic presupposes three possibilities, but there are millions! Cut away a million, and reduce it all to the
question of comfort! That's the easiest solution of the problem! It's seductively clear and you musn't think about it. That's the great thing, you mustn't think! The whole secret of life in two pages of print!"

"Oh, I know it does, but just tell me: a man of forty violates a child of ten; was it environment drove him to it?"
"Well, strictly speaking, it did," Porfiry observed with noteworthy gravity; "a crime of that nature may be very well ascribed to the influence of environment."

• this is an interesting question, I wouldn't know the

answer

Last year he persuaded us that he was going into a monastery: he stuck to it for two months.

• interestig how the simple jokes and fooling around

can show the great strengths of the enemy

in the article Raskolnikov : "I analysed, if I remember, the psychology of a criminal before and after the crime."

• damn so many hints, and no proof

There is, if you recollect, a suggestion that there are certain persons who can... that is, not precisely are able to, but have a perfect right to
commit breaches of morality and crimes, and that the law is not for them.

• this is a key theory in the book apparently

I maintain that if the discoveries of Kepler and Newton could not have been made known except by sacrificing the lives of one, a dozen, a hundred, or more men, Newton would have had the right, would indeed have been in duty bound... to eliminate the dozen or the hundred men for the sake of making his discoveries known to the whole of humanity.

I only believe in my leading idea that men are in general divided by a law of nature into two categories, inferior (ordinary), that is, so to say, material that serves only to reproduce its kind, and men who have the gift or the talent to utter a new word.

The second category all transgress the law; they are destroyers or disposed to destruction according to their capacities. The crimes of these men are of course relative and varied; for the most part they seek in very varied ways the destruction of the present for the sake of the better.

• this somehow makes me think about a communist revolution

because some people are entitled to make a crime in order to bring something new to life

The first category is always the man of the present, the second the man of the future. The first preserve the world and people it, the second move the world and lead it to its goal

"And... and do you believe in God? Excuse my curiosity."
"I do," repeated Raskolnikov, raising his eyes to Porfiry.

• is this true? If that's the case then he must really

believe that killing that old lady was moral?

The vast mass of mankind is mere material, and only exists in order by some great effort, by some mysterious process, by means of some crossing of races and stocks, to bring into the world at last perhaps one man out of a thousand with a spark of independence. One in ten thousand perhaps—I speak roughly, approximately—is born with some independence, and with still greater independence one in a hundred thousand. The man of genius is one of millions, and the great geniuses, the crown of humanity, appear on earth perhaps one in many thousand millions.

"Well, you see... I really don't know how to express it properly.... It's a playful, psychological idea.... When you were writing your article, surely you couldn't have helped, he‐he! fancying yourself... just a little, an 'extraordinary' man, uttering a new word in your sense.... That's so, isn't it?"
"Quite possibly," Raskolnikov answered contemptuously.

• after Raskolnikov commited his crime, he will not lie about

anything related to his own dignity

"Perhaps it was one of these future Napoleons who did for Alyona Ivanovna last week?" Zametov blurted out from the corner.

• very intersted that Zametov said about the elephant

in the room, that reveals a lot about his character that he is the type of person that talks about things and has no fear

Raskolnikov did not speak, but looked firmly and intently at Porfiry. Razumihin was scowling gloomily. He seemed before this to be noticing something. He looked angrily around. There was a minute of gloomy silence. Raskolnikov turned to go.

• this is the worst reaction possible, I have no idea

how someone smart such as Raskolnikov could do something like this

Chapter 6

"You are suspicious. That is why you weighed their words... h'm... certainly, I agree, Porfiry's tone was rather strange, and still more that wretch Zametov!... You are right, there was something about him—but why? Why?"
"He has changed his mind since last night."

• curious to know what changed about zametov

The more cunning a man is, the less he suspects that he will be caught in a simple thing. The more cunning a man is, the simpler the trap he must be caught in. Porfiry is not such a fool as you think....

His ideas were all tangled. He went dreamily through the gateway.

"You were inquiring for me... of the porter?" Raskolnikov said at last, but in a curiously quiet voice.
The man made no answer; he didn't even look at him. Again they were both silent.

• this guy is clearly a bad ass

"Murderer!" he said suddenly in a quiet but clear and distinct voice.
Raskolnikov went on walking beside him. His legs felt suddenly weak, a cold shiver ran down his spine, and his heart seemed to stand still for a moment, then suddenly began throbbing as though it were set free. So they walked for about a hundred paces, side by side in silence.

• this was very well done for many reasons, first because

he hid the word in the next page, second because it was totally unexpected since we don't even know who that person is, and clearly things are getting more serious for Raskolnikov since he is on the spotlight

Raskolnikov could not see clearly, but he fancied that he was again smiling the same smile of cold hatred and triumph.

• clearly this guy is a psycopath as well, and has reasons

to have Raskolinikov, which is very interesting

With slow faltering steps, with shaking knees, Raskolnikov made his way back to his little garret, feeling chilled all over. He took off his cap and put it on the table, and for ten minutes he stood without moving.

• he creates some very dramatic scenes

"No, those men are not made so. The real Master to whom all is permitted storms Toulon, makes a massacre in Paris, forgets an army in Egypt, wastes half a million men in the Moscow expedition and gets off with a jest at Vilna. And altars are set up to him after his death, and so all is permitted. No, such people, it seems, are not of flesh but of bronze!"

• I am really surprised that he thinks so highly of himself,

that is so weird

"A velha nao significa nada, dizia a si mesmo, ardente impetuosamente. Eh talvez um erro, mas nao se tradta dela. A velha foi senao um acidente .. eu queria dar um pulo depressa. Nao matei um ser humano, mas sim um principio"

the guy that said he was a murderer took him to the building where the murder happened, Raskolinkov is quite stupid sometimes