Crimes of Passion in Russian Literature

[Inna Caron]

Right, but both husband and father-in-law are murdered in the course of
removing the obstacles between the heroine and her object, so I figured
they didn't qualify as crimes of passion. The child is born in prison
and lives, but the mother is quite indifferent to his fate.

I feel the same way about the murdered child in "Vlast' t'my" - it is
premeditated and more of a cover-up, so it does not seem to fit the
initial query. 

Inna Caron

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[mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU] On Behalf Of Svetlana Grenier
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 11:38 AM
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Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Crimes of Passion in Russian Literature

Incidentally, in Leskov's "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District" , 
suggested earlier, not only the rival but also the husband, the 
father-in-law (and a child?) are murdered.

Dostoevsky discusses several such crimes in Dnevnik pisatelia (Kairova 
trying to murder her rival, I believe, and Kornilova throwing her 
stepdaughter out of a window, although he explains it by temporary 
insanity brought on by pregnancy).

Svetlana Grenier


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