Tội ác và sự trừng phạt là 1 trong những tác phẩm văn học nga hổi tiếng . Sau đây là bản dịch tiếng anh của t\p nà Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky Translated By Constance Garnett PART V Chapter II | Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky Translated By Constance Garnett PART V Chapter II It would be difficult to explain exactly what could have originated the idea of that senseless dinner in Katerina Ivanovna s disordered brain. Nearly ten of the twenty roubles given by Raskolnikov for Marmeladov s funeral were wasted upon it. Possibly Katerina Ivanovna felt obliged to honour the memory of the deceased suitably that all the lodgers and still more Amalia Ivanovna might know that he was in no way their inferior and perhaps very much their superior and that no one had the right to turn up his nose at him. Perhaps the chief element was that peculiar poor man s pride which compels many poor people to spend their last savings on some traditional social ceremony simply in order to do like other people and not to be looked down upon. It is very probable too that Katerina Ivanovna longed on this occasion at the moment when she seemed to be abandoned by everyone to show those wretched contemptible lodgers that she knew how to do things how to entertain and that she had been brought up in a genteel she might almost say aristocratic colonel s family and had not been meant for sweeping floors and washing the children s rags at night. Even the poorest and most broken-spirited people are sometimes liable to these paroxysms of pride and vanity which take the form of an irresistible nervous craving. And Katerina Ivanovna was not broken-spirited she might have been killed by circumstance but her spirit could not have been broken that is she could not have been intimidated her will could not be crushed. Moreover Sonia had said with good reason that her mind was unhinged. She could not be said to be insane but for a year past she had been so harassed that her mind might well be overstrained. The later stages of consumption are apt doctors tell us to affect the intellect. There was no great variety of wines nor was there Madeira but wine there was. There was vodka rum and Lisbon .
