Franklin Darrem

El escritor narra el asesinato de una vara anciana usurera llamada Elena Ivanovna, cometido por el estudiante universitario Raskolnikov que tenia problemas econ micos para continuar con sus estudios, Raskolnikov, despu s de matar a la prestamista y a su hermana con un hacha se apodera de todas las alhajas. Luego se deshace del arma homicida y esconde las alhajas en el hueco de un patio, cerca de un edificio. Los d as pasan agobiando al joven criminal con delirio de persecuci n y pesadillas. Su conciencia vigilante se subleva y no lo deja en paz. La polic a lo cita por ciertas dudas que tiene con su persona con relaci n al crimen de la vieja usurera y, cuando le mencionan el crimen Raskolnikov se desmaya. Se agrava la salud del joven Raskolnikov y sufre de insomnio por la intensa tensi n nerviosa que padece. El joven se comporta como un loco y pierde los papeles con suma facilidad. El solo se va delatando por su actitud sospechosa. El cree que ya todos sospechan de su persona. En todas partes ve como alucinado un dedo acusador. Raskolnikov vive abandonado a su suerte, su amigo del alma Rasumikin, lo reconforta y le cambia los andrajos por ropa nueva. En los momentos mas dif ciles, Sonia Marmeladora, siempre lo esta visitando por que lo ama. En una visita cuando Raskolnikov se sorprende al verla Sonia Marmeladora le dice: vine a saber como te encuentras y el le responde: Sonia siempre te has portado muy bien conmigo, no lo merezco y ella le dice que no diga eso por que se siente a gusto con tu compa a. Y el as mismo se dice, pobre Sonia, es tan buena. Se que me ama pero yo nada puedo ofrecerle. Se merece a alguien mejor que yo. Sonia se despide de el. Raskolnikov lleno de temor y de dudas se queda dormido, as paso el d a. a la ma ana siguiente sali a la calle y anduvo al azar, finalmente ingres en un caf ayi tom un t y ley los periodicos de los ultimos 5 dias, buscando las nocias que hablaran sobre el crimen. En la cafeter a se encuentra con Zamertoff, con quien habla sobre el crimen que se cometio con la usurera. Zamertoff queda intrigado con la conducta de Raskolnikov y se dice a si mismo: muy extrano su comportamiento, me dio la impresion de estar asustado y por eso esa actitud, se lo contare al inspector de policia. Se despidieron y el joven raskolnikov estuvo por la calle vagando horas y horas sin rumbo fijo, sin dejar de pensar en el crimen que cometio, y cuando regresaba a su casa se encontr con su amigo Dimitri y ambos fueron a su casa. Alla los esperaba su madre Pulquerria y su hija Dunia. Luego de una conversacion, Raskolnikov se desmaya y lloran las dos mujeres. Raskolnikov recupera su salud que estaba quebrantada, gracias a los cuidados de su amigo Dimitri Razumikin y las atenciones de un medico amigo. El joven Raskolnikov alterna entrevistas con su adorada madre y con su hermana. El joven universitario va a casa de Sonia y juntos leen la biblia. Los dos jovenes se aman en silencio. Posteriormente Raskolnikov le confiesa a Sonia que el es el asesino de la usurera; ella queda tremenamente impresionada le dice que jamas lo abandonara y que siempre estara a su lado, el joven por fin decide entregarse a las autoridades y confiesa su culpa. Um mes despues es condenado a 8 a os de trabajos forzados de segunda categoria en siberia.

The first-person narrative is told from the point of view of Alexei Ivanovich, a tutor working for a Russian family living in a suite at a German hotel. The patriarch of the family, The General, is indebted to the Frenchman Des Grieux and has mortgaged his property in Russia to pay only a small amount of his debt. Upon learning of the illness of his wealthy aunt, "Grandmother", he sends streams of telegrams to Moscow and awaits the news of her demise. His expected inheritance will pay his debts and gain Mademoiselle De Cominges's hand in marriage. Alexei is hopelessly in love with Polina, the General's stepdaughter, and swears an oath of servitude to her. He told her while on a walk on the Schlangenberg (a mountain in the German town) that all she had to do was give the word and he would gladly walk off the edge and plummet to his death. This leads to her asking him to go to the town's casino and place a bet for her. He refuses at first but, when goaded and reminded of his oath of undying love and servility, he succumbs and ends up winning at the roulette table. He returns to her the winnings but she will not tell him the reason she needs money. She only laughs in his face (as she does when he professes his love) and treats him with cold indifference, if not downright malice. He only learns the details of The General's and Polina's financial state later in the story through his long-time acquaintance, Mr. Astley. Astley is a shy Englishman who seems to share Alexei's fondness of Polina. He comes from English nobility and has a good deal of money. One day while Polina and Alexei are on a walk they see a Baron and Baroness. Polina dares him to insult the aristocratic couple and he does so with little hesitation. This sets off a chain of events that details Madame de Cominges's interest in the General and gets Alexei fired as tutor of the General's children. Shortly after this, Grandmother shows up and surprises the whole party of debtors and indebted. She tells them all that she knows all about the General's debt and why the French man and woman are waiting around the suite day after day. She leaves the party of death-profiteers by saying that none of them are getting any of her money. She then asks Alexei to be her guide around the town famous for its healing waters and infamous for its casino where the tables are stacked with piles of gold; she wants to gamble. After being ushered to the roulette table, she plays and wins a significant amount of money. After a short return to the hotel, she comes back to roulette tables and she starts to get the bug; before she leaves the town, she's lost almost a hundred thousand roubles. When Alexei gets back to his room after sending Grandmother off at the railway station, he's greeted by Polina. She shows him a letter where Des Grieux says he has started legal proceedings to sell Generals' properties mortgaged to him, but he is returning properties worth fifty thousand roubles to General for Polina's benefit. Des Grieux says he feels he had fulfilled all his obligations that way. Polina's wishes she had fifty thousand to fling at Des Grieux's face. Upon hearing this, Alexei runs out of the room and to the casino where he wins over two hundred thousand roubles and becomes a rich man. When he gets back to his room and the waiting Polina, he empties his pockets full of gold and bank notes onto the bed. At first she accuses him of trying to buy her like Des Grieux, but then she embraces him. They fall asleep on the couch. Next day, she asks for fifty thousand and when he gives it to her, she flings that money at Alexei's face and runs off to Mr. Astley (they had been secretly meeting and exchanging notes and she was supposed to meet him night before but has come to Alexei room). He doesn't see her again.

Notes from Underground, also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld, is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. citation needed] It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred to by critics as the Underground Man) who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg. The first part of the story is told in monologue form, or the underground man's diary, and attacks emerging Western philosophy, especially Nikolay Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done?. The second part of the book is called " propos of the Wet Snow", and describes certain events that, it seems, are destroying and sometimes renewing the underground man, who acts as a first person, unreliable narrator.