Crime and Punishment, Part 4, Chapter 1 — streszczenie

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1. Svidrigaïlov asks Raskolnikov to help him meet Avdotya Romanovna, but Raskolnikov rejects his excuses for pursuing her.
2. Svidrigaïlov denies responsibility for Marfa Petrovna’s death while admitting that he strikes her and describing their marriage.
3. He reports visits from Marfa Petrovna’s ghost and debates illness, spirits, and eternity with an increasingly disturbed Raskolnikov.
4. He offers Avdotya Romanovna ten thousand roubles to help her break with Luzhin, claiming no romantic motive.
5. Raskolnikov rejects the offer and refuses to promise access to his sister.
6. Svidrigaïlov announces Marfa Petrovna’s three-thousand-rouble bequest to Avdotya Romanovna, then encounters Razumihin while leaving.

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Svidrigaïlov separates the experience of a vision from the question of its reality. This distinction drives their argument about illness and another world.

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