Clavis Libri

Theme

Redemption

The salvation of one who has fallen: redemption, grace, repentance, liberation.

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

the reading of Lazarus (Chapter IV of Part Four), the confession, with the cross and Sonia's request that he kiss the earth (Chapter IV of Part Five), Porfiry's explanation, which offers him a reduced sentence and life (Chapter II of Part Six), the square (Chapter VIII of Part Six), Sonia, who follows him to Siberia (Chapter I of the Epilogue) and the weeping by the river (Chapter II of the Epilogue).

Purgatory

Dante Alighieri

the realm defined as purging oneself in order to become worthy of climbing (Canto I), the gate that opens once and demands not looking back (Canto IX), the P that is erased and leaves the step lighter (Canto XII), the mountain that trembles when a soul feels the free will to rise (Canto XXI), the wall of fire that separates Dante from Beatrice (Canto XXVII), and the Lethe and the Eunoe, which close the canticle with Dante renewed (Canto XXXI, Canto XXXIII).