If I do at some point tackle Ulysses, I'd want to do so with one of the “guidebooks” for it — I’ve read that The Cambridge Ulysses is excellent. But realistically that might not happen, I’ve got so much else to read and the sand is pouring through my life’s hourglass.
By the way, I did read Crime and Punishment about 50 years ago but have only vague memories of it. Probably should read it again as it would be essentially new to me; I don’t even remember who Raskolnikov murdered.
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From what I remember, it's not so much who he killed as why he killed them. It became a whole philosophical discussion about crime and guilt.
I love Dostoyevsky. First read him when I was in high school, and I was stunned. Opened up a world for me. The Idiot was my first book. I didn't know people had those thoughts, that there could be such a way of looking at life. Of course now I see that Dostoyevsky was flawed, but he was profound. That's what I was looking for, I think, when I was young.
Anyway, here I go again :))