![]() Allen Lane imprint edition
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Author | Kevin Birmingham |
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Language | English |
Subject | Literary criticism, biography |
Genre | Nonfiction |
Publisher | Allen Lane |
Publication date | 16 November 2021 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Print ( hardback), Digital |
Pages | 432 |
ISBN | 9780241235942 |
Website | penguin.co.uk |
The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky, a Crime and Its Punishment [a] is a book by Kevin Birmingham. It details events in the life of Fyodor Dostoevsky and the inspiration behind his acclaimed novel, Crime and Punishment. [1] [2]
According to Birmingham, the protagonist Rodion Raskolnikov was partly based on a minor French poet turned murderer, Pierre François Lacenaire. [3] [4]
The Sinner and the Saint is the second book authored by Birmingham. His first, The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses, originally published in 2014, won the PEN New England Award in 2015 and Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in 2016. [5] [6]