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Название книги: Compulsion
Автор(ы): Meyer Levin
Жанр: Триллер
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Compulsion-150473.html
In memory of my mother and fatherGoldie and Joseph Levin
Author's Note
Some may ask, Why call up anew this gruesome crime of more than thirty years ago? Let time cover it, let it be forgotten.Surely I would not recall it for the sake of sensation. I write of it in the hope of applying to it the increase of understanding of such crimes that has come, during these years, and in the hope of drawing from it some further increase in our comprehension of human behaviour.In using an actual case for my story, I follow in the great tradition of Stendhal with The Red and the Black, of Dostoevski with Crime and Punishment, of Dreiser with An American Tragedy.Certain crimes seem to epitomize the thinking of their era. Thus Crime and Punishment had to arise out of the feverish soul-searching of the Russia of Dostoevski’s period, and An American Tragedy had to arise from the sociological thinking of Dreiser’s time in America. In our time, the psychoanalytical point of view has come to the fore.If I have followed an actual case, are thes
Название книги: Compulsion
Автор(ы): Meyer Levin
Жанр: Триллер
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/Compulsion-150473.html
In memory of my mother and fatherGoldie and Joseph Levin
Author's Note
Some may ask, Why call up anew this gruesome crime of more than thirty years ago? Let time cover it, let it be forgotten.Surely I would not recall it for the sake of sensation. I write of it in the hope of applying to it the increase of understanding of such crimes that has come, during these years, and in the hope of drawing from it some further increase in our comprehension of human behaviour.In using an actual case for my story, I follow in the great tradition of Stendhal with The Red and the Black, of Dostoevski with Crime and Punishment, of Dreiser with An American Tragedy.Certain crimes seem to epitomize the thinking of their era. Thus Crime and Punishment had to arise out of the feverish soul-searching of the Russia of Dostoevski’s period, and An American Tragedy had to arise from the sociological thinking of Dreiser’s time in America. In our time, the psychoanalytical point of view has come to the fore.If I have followed an actual case, are thes
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