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Voldemort is Raskolnikov?

by Travis Prinzi on February 27, 2008

An Orthodox lecturer is arguing that Rowling’s Voldemort is the full realization of Dostoevsky’s Raskolnikov from Crime and Punishment. That seems a big stretch to me; there’s a ton of human left in Raskolnikov all through the book, in my opinion.

I made a very generalized thematic link between Crime and Punishment and Harry Potter way back here (in 2005), but I think that’s about all it’s safe to say. John Granger has done some excellent work with Dostoevsky’s triptych in The Brothers Karamazov, which, sad to say, is still on my “to read” list.

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