“HELLO, you little fat father!” the devil said to the priest. “The Priest and the Devil” (emphasis mine): What teachers do not often share with pupils is the story the same author carved into the wall of his Siberian prison cell in 1849-one of the most scathing, and chilling, indictments of capitalism, and hellfire and brimstone theology, ever composed. Teachers often emphasize how, according to the typical reactionary and simplistic interpretation of Crime and Punishment, as an attack on a superficially defined Nietzscheism, atheism turns you into the moralless, hedonistic, failed Übermensch Raskolnikov.Īt the center of Dostoyevsky’s Christian existentialism, nevertheless, is a decidedly political streak. As with virtually every writer (and artist overall), Dostoyevsky, when taught in schools, has been completely depoliticized.
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