At that moment "raskolnikov" was in the air, so to speak.
"Plays by August Strindberg, Second series"
August Strindberg
raskolnikov is a murderer on theory, a penitent out of weakness.
"Maxim Gorki"
Hans Ostwald
Think of the young man, for instance, in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment-there is a young man whose experience surrounds and presses upon the reader, is felt and tasted and endured by the reader; and any one who has been through the book has truly become raskolnikov, and knows exactly what it was to be that young man.
"The Craft of Fiction"
Percy Lubbock
