Marmeladov"s Apartment - Crimen y Castigo (sitios de interés)
Descripción del sitio
Here is where Marmeladov lives with Katerina Ivanovna and the three children: Polenka, Kolya, and Lenya. It"s a poor establishment, owned by Amalia Ivanovna Lippewechsel, with rooms also rented by Luzhin and Lebezyatnikov. It"s located only two or three hundred steps from the tavern in which Raskolnikov meets Marmeladov. Raskolnikov visits the apartment twice; once after meeting Marmeladov in a tavern, and later when Marmeladov is taken back to his apartment to die after having been hit by a carriage. A description of the apartment shows it to be quite an unpleasant place:
"At the head of the stairs, at the very top, a small, soot-blackened door stood open. A candle-end lighted the poorest of rooms, about ten paces long; the whole of it could be seen from the entryway. Everything was scattered about and in disorder, all sorts of children"s rags especially. A torn sheet hung across the back corner. Behind it was probably a bed. The only contents of the room itself were two chairs and an oilcloth sofa, very ragged, before which stood an old pine kitchen table, unpainted and uncovered. At the edge of the table stood an iron candlestick with the butt of a tallow candle burning down in it. It appeared that this room of Marmeladov"s was a seperate one, not just a corner, though other tenants had to pass through it. The door to the further rooms, or hutches into which Amalia Lippewechsel"s apartment had been divided, was ajar. Behind it there was noise and shouting. Guffawing. Card-playing and tea-drinking seemed to be going on. Occassionally the most unceremonious of words would fly out." (pgs. 24-25, Crime and Punishment, Pevear and Volokhonsky Translation.)
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