Stripped down Dostoyevsky

Classic novels are transformed into graphic novels in Self Made Hero's "Eye Classics" series. An excellent new addition to the list is this masterful and atmospheric translation of Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky's famous tale of mental anguish and moral dilemmas, originally published in 1866. Writer David Zane Mairowitz does a fine job of modernising the story of Raskolnikov, a poor St Petersburg student who murders a miserly pawnbroker and subsequently falls into a vicious paranoia that belies his over-confident personality. And Mairowitz is well-aided in maintaining the story's intensity by artist Alain Korkos, who creates haunting environments filled with all manner of grotesques.