A Argumentação Jurídica e o Efeito Estético na Obra Crime e Castigo, de Fiódor Dostoiévski

Abstract

The proposal of this research is to analyze the legal argumentation and the aesthetic effect in the work Crime and Punishment of Fiódor Dostoiévski. For this we start from the communicative premise of the literary work and its capacity to provide textual elements capable of constructing a line of argumentative reasoning, responsible for leading the reader to experience certain aesthetic experiences. The work selected for the development of the present study is essential, because his narrative compose argumentative elements where the main character, Raskolnikov, engages in the practice of a terrible murder and therefore seeks in various ways to justify his attitudes. The conduct of the protagonist described in the work Crime and Punishment allows a double reflection, both in the legal and literary aspects. And so we adopted the right line of literature research to reflect the argumentative elements and the very concept of crime discussed during the narrative. However, in addition to demonstrating the close relationship between literature and the legal universe, the present work deals with the theory of aesthetic effect developed by Wolfgang Iser, precisely to discuss the interaction between the work and the reader and the effect produced by the intimate relationship between the textual elements and the imaginary capacity of each receiver, in order to highlight the richness existing in the literary text.