Epilogue, Chapter 2
Raskolnikov's apocalyptic dream of a plague of self-righteous madmen—a key text often read as Dostoevsky's vision of ideological catastrophe foreshadowing the 20th century.
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The Siberian epilogue, with Raskolnikov's sudden religious turn, is the most debated passage—often criticized (by Bakhtin and others) as artistically tacked-on or defended as a deliberate gesture toward the ineffable.
Epilogue, Chapter 2
The disputed conversion moment by the river: 'How it happened he did not know. But all at once something seemed to seize him and fling him at her feet. He wept and threw his arms round her knees.'
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