Review
Praise for previous translations by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, winners of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize
The Brothers KaramazovOne finally gets the musical whole of Dostoevskys original. New York Times Book Review
It may well be that Dostoevskys [world], with all its resourceful energies of life and language, is only nowand through the medium of [this] new translationbeginning to come home to the English-speaking reader. New York Review of Books
Crime and PunishmentThe best [translation] currently availableAn especially faithful re-creationwith a coiled-spring kinetic energy Dont miss it. Washington Post Book World
Reaches as close to Dostoevskys Russian as is possible in EnglishThe originals force and frightening immediacy is capturedThe Pevear and Volokhonsky translation will become the standard version. Chicago Tribune
DemonsThe merit in this edition of Demons resides in the technical virtuosity of the translatorsThey capture the feverishly intense, personal explosions of activity and emotion that manifest themselves in Russian life. New York Times Book Review
[Pevear and Volokhonsky] have managed to capture and differentiate the characters many voicesThey come into their own when faced with Dostoevskys wonderfully quirky use of varied speech patternsA capital job of restoration. Los Angeles Times
With an Introduction by Richard Pevear
From the Hardcover edition.
Product Description
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Dostoevskys most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In full retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of mans essentially irrational nature.Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original.
From the Hardcover edition.