Murder a la Russe

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

Murder is the ultimate transgression, the crime that cannot be redressed. In this course, we will examine how Russian novelists conceive of murder. What motivates us to murder? Honor, hatred, jealousy, politics? Is murder ever justified? Who is the murderer, and what is his/her fate? We will discover how some of Russia’s most remarkable writers have answered these questions.