Crime and Punishment great book, because the film would always suffer by comparison. The novel was adapted for stage by Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus. The play was performed at 59E59 St Theater with Writers′ Theatre in 2007 in New York City. The Irish poet, Philip McDonagh, published a stage version of the novel in 2017, which was performed in Ireland and England that year. Text Sources Criticisms Online Text Maps Crime and Punishment Crime and Punishment (Pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform ) is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published in the literary journal "The Russian Messenger" in
Crime and Punishment As she leaves, Raskolnikov asks for her address and tells her that he will visit her soon. At Raskolnikov's behest, Razumikhin takes him to see the detective Porfiry Petrovich, who is investigating the murders. Raskolnikov immediately senses that Porfiry knows that he is the murderer. Porfiry, who has just been discussing the case with Zamyotov, adopts an ironic tone during the conversation. He expresses extreme curiosity about an article that Raskolnikov wrote some months ago called 'On Crime', in which he suggests that certain rare individuals—the benefactors and geniuses of mankind—have a right to 'step across' legal or moral boundaries