Crime and Punishment is only one of the important Dostoevsky works about faith and existentialism. He covers similar ground in the novella Notes From Underground and later in The Brothers Karamozov. Students may also look at other great nineteenth-century Russian writers, namely Ivan Turgenev (Fathers and Sons), Anton Chekov (The Seagull), and Nikolai Gogol (The Overcoat). Finally, Crime and Punishment wrestles with themes of interest to philosophers of the mid-19th and early 20th century, especially Frederich Nietschze in The Gay Science and The Genealogy of Morals.
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