Laura Occasionally Blogs

So, I've finished the book, which may make it more difficult for me to get up the energy to finish the recaps. Still, here's a three-chapter set forming a complete incident. Only two and a half more volumes and an epilogue to go!!!!

5.1
That same morning, as Raskolnikov is visiting the police station, Luzhin is getting angry because his German landlord won't return the deposit on his new marital apartment. ( His day isn't getting any better. )


5.2
Okay, this chapter seems like mostly filler. Katerina Ivanovna is going all out on the banquet, fueled by equal parts shame in her own poverty and brain-addledness. Description of the preparations as assisted by a dumb Pole. Oh, great, more racism. ( Don't worry, there's plenty about Germans too. )


5.3
Katerina asks Luzhin to help her defend Sonia against the landlady's accusations, but Luzhin isn't interested: he's come to speak of his "own affairs." ( Ominous. )

Raskolnikov Like-O-Meter: 4. Raskolnikov sat alone in a boggy marsh, totally motionless except for his heart.
Andrey Like-O-Meter: 73. Loved him as a dumb idealist with bad ideas, loved him even more as hero of Sonia's honor. Even if Raskolnikov got the credit.

So apparently the names in Crime and Punishment all have semantic significance, kind of like how everyone in Harry Potter is named, like, Lupine Wolfson and Wormtongue and Obadiah Slope (RIGHT?). Anna explained the meaningful roots of the last names, and I came up with what I think would be an English equivalent if you were going to translate the names in that really annoying way that they do on Sailor Moon.

Makes the whole thing seem much sillier, doesn't it? I blame Dostoevsky.

Full name from book	Anna's translation of surname	My Sailormoonization of full name
Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov (Rodya)	to chop with an axe	Beaver Cleaver (The Beave)
Dmitri Prokofitch Razumihin	reason, intelligence	Daniel Smartypants
Pyotr Petrovitch Luzhin	puddle	Peter Shallow III
Semyon Zakharovich Marmeladov	marmalade	Sam Marmalade
Andrey Semyonivich Lebeziatnikov	frog	Andrey Frogface