Despite the fact that spiders are all over the place in Dostoevsky, not just in Svidrigailov's dirty bathhouse vision of Eternity, and that urban potted plants go back to the beginning in Poor People, we are here firmly inside Crime and Punishment in its abandoned first-person narrative form (‘ I am on trial and will tell all ’): Petersburg evenings and their hanging summer light, noises from below, happy workmen, blessed ‘ living life ’ elsewhere, a lonely man in pain passing through gates, over thresholds, slipping up and down staircases, the buzzing By of Raskolnikov's dream and his awakening, intense time-consciousness alternating with time-oblivion.
Despite the fact that spiders are in many different locations in Dostoevsky, not just in Svidrigailov's dirty bathhouse vision of Eternity, and that urban potted plants go back to the beginning in Poor People, we are here firmly inside Crime and Punishment in its abandoned first-person narrative form (‘ I am on trial and will tell all ’): Petersburg evenings and their hanging summer light, noises from below, happy workmen, blessed ‘ living life ’ elsewhere, a lonely man in pain passing through gates, over thresholds, slipping up and down staircases, the buzzing By of Raskolnikov's dream and his awakening, intense time-consciousness alternating with time-oblivion.