Dostoevsky's Bells. Notes of a Mad Literary Scholar

The main character of Sergey Nosov's new novel is “Crime and Punishment”.

In the most literal sense: a mad literary scholar believes that he is—Dostoevsky's novel—and writes in letters to his psychiatrist a proposal for a book—about himself.

Sergey Nosov is a... well-known writer, a native resident and researcher of Petersburg, the author of the intriguing “Secret Life of Petersburg Monuments”. It is logical that his book about “the most Petersburg novel” is full of sudden observations, discoveries, and revelations. Dostoevsky—“with an unclouded gaze,” Raskolnikov, and everyone, everyone, everyone… Here we talk about love, debts, and the fact that “Crime and Punishment” is a fundamentally impossible novel, and the fact that it has come to be is a true miracle.