15 September 2002 09:49
Audio books of the week
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. By Fyodor Dostoevsky, read by Nigel Anthony
Abridging books for audio is not always a bad idea, even for the classics. But this intense Russian novel is
emasculated by the process, becoming little more than a canter through Raskolnikoff's murder of the nasty old
moneylender and his subsequent moral and spiritual torment. And hardly have we begun to plumb the depths of
Raskolnikoff's agonising (or the teeming stews of St Petersburg) before a burst of Rimsky-Korsakov moves us on to
the next episode. But Nigel Anthony's reading, proceeding at a brisker pace than he might have liked, does serve as
a useful introduction to the novel (CSA Pounds 6.99, 2 hours 30 minutes).
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