Crimen y castigo

Rodion Raskolnikov is a young student who barely has enough to survive, despite his mother's best efforts to send him money. When he discovers that his sister Dunya, with their mother's support, is willing to sacrifice her life and marry a lawyer she doesn't love solely to improve the family's financial situation and help him, he becomes desperate and plots to murder and rob Alyona Ivanovna, an elderly pawnbroker who keeps a large sum of money in her house. As José Ovejero states in the epilogue to this edition, "one of the main thematic axes of Crime and Punishment deals with the tension between freedom and moral responsibility, that is, between the possibility of carrying out actions dictated by individual will and submission to the values ​​and expectations of those around us, values ​​and expectations we have internalized."