'Crime and Punishment' Discussion Group at Library

A "Crime and Punishment" discussion group will meet Wednesday, Nov. 30, 7:30-8:45 p.m., in the Sutton Room, at Peabody Institute Library, 82 Main St.

Back by popular demand, Harvard University’s professor Theoharis C. Theoharis will teach this four-part series on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s "Crime and Punishment."

Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" is a psychological thriller, a religious conversion story, the first detective novel, and an intense moral adventure tale -- all in one. The group will talk about how these styles merge with Dostoevsky's panoramic portrayal of life in a Russian Imperial City, the background for this classic story of gaining knowledge of good and evil.

Theoharis has taught at Harvard University for 25 years. He has lectured widely in the United States and Europe, and is the author of Joyce's "Ulysses: An Anatomy of the Soul," Ibsen's "Drama: Right Action and Tragic Joy," and translator of "Before Time Could Change Them: The Complete Poems of Constantine P. Cavafy." He lives in Cambridge, Mass.

Classes will meet Tuesday Nov. 30, and Dec. 21 at 7:30 p.m.

Books are available through the Main Library. The class will use the Vintage Classics edition, translated by Pevear and Volokhonsky.

This event is generously supported by the Friends of the Peabody Institute Libraries.