 "Crime and Punishment" is written from a third-person omniscient perspective.It is told primarily from the point of view of Raskolnikov, but does at times switch to the perspective of other characters such as Svidrigaïlov, Razumikhin, Luzhin, Sonya or Dunya.This narrative technique, which fuses the narrator very closely with the consciousness and point of view of the central characters, was original for its period.