It’s the kind of book around which there is an agreement of worth. It’s also a seminal crime novel: a sprawling, ambitious work of existential angst composed of transgressions, detectives, fugitives, and investigations. The message, in short: Dostoevsky has haters, too.Ĭrime and Punishment, first published in 1866 in serial installments in The Russian Messenger, is generally recognized as a high water mark of world literature. As an offering to aspiring writers, and to all those working authors fending off the hate and putting in the good work, we offer you this post (and others like it to come). Reading these reviews can be, strangely, invigorating. Look up just about any consensus historically great work of fiction on Amazon, Goodreads, or your other forum of choice and you’ll find there are people giving that book the notorious “one star” and eviscerating the writer in the comments.
But any writer who means to make it ought to steel themselves for the occasional vicious takedown from readers, critics, friends, neighbors, possibly even your loved ones. Nobody likes hearing that their work is, in anyone’s evaluation, disappointing or even a downright failure.
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