Svidrigailov

From Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Svidrigailov is Raskolnikov's dark double—a sensualist and possible murderer who lives the 'all is permitted' principle to its nihilistic end.
Part 4, Chapter 1

Svidrigailov's first major dialogue with Raskolnikov, and his haunting speculation: 'We are always thinking of eternity as an idea... but what if it's one little room, like a bath house in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner...'

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Part 6, Chapter 6

Svidrigailov's suicide scene—he tells the watchman he is 'going to America' and shoots himself, the doppelganger's fate Raskolnikov narrowly escapes.

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