On Friday, April 13, 2012 at 7:00 Olga Pilkington, Literature Professor at Dixie State College, will present fact meets fiction in 1920’s Chicago.  Believing in their own arrival as Neitzche’s superman, Leopold & Loeb commit what they believe to be the unsolvable, perfect murder.  Professor Pilkington will explore the ways in which Leopold & Loeb acted out in real life the same psychological aspects of Radkolnikov, Dostoyevsky’s flawed character in Crime and Punishment written in 1866.

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