Andre Gide once said that Feodor Dostoevsky "lost himself in the characters of his books, and, for this reason, it is in them that he can be found again

Prologue: The Horse, the Courier; 1: The Author as Psychoanalyst; 2: Crime and Punishment: The Author's Life; 3: Crime and Punishment: The Novel; 4: Associations to the Novel and the "Scene"; 5: The Dostoevsky Family; 6: The Engineering Academy: Poor Folk; 7: Nervous Crisis: The Double; 8: Political Conspiracy: The Possessed; 9: Prison, Exile, the Second Maria; 10: Return to Petersburg: Journalism, Women, Gambling; 11: The Death of Maria: Notes from Underground; 12: Death and Rebirth