The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue

✍ Scribed by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor; Pevear, Richard (transl); Volokhonsky, Larissa

• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 612 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780679729259

✦ Synopsis

Review

“[Dostoevsky is] at once the most literary and compulsively readable of novelists we continue to regard as great . . . The Brothers Karamazov stands as the culmination of his art–his last, longest, richest, and most capacious book. [This] scrupulous rendition can only be welcomed. It returns us to a work we thought we knew, subtly altered and so made new again.” –_Washington Post Book World_

“A miracle . . . Every page of the new Karamazov is a permanent standard, and an inspiration.” –_The Times_ (London)

“One finally gets the musical whole of Dostoevsky’s original.” –_New York Times Book Review_

“Absolutely faithful . . . Fulfills in remarkable measure most of the criteria for an ideal translation . . . The stylistic accuracy and versatility of registers used . . . bring out the richness and depth of the original in a way similar to a faithful and sensitive restoration of a painting.” –_The Independent_

“It may well be that Dostoevsky’s [world], with all its resourceful energies of life and language, is only now–and through the medium of [this] new translation–beginning to come home to the English-speaking reader.” –_New York Review of Books_

“Heartily recommended to any reader who wishes to come as close to Dostoevsky’s Russian as it is possible.” –Joseph Frank, Princeton University

With an Introduction by Malcolm V. Jones

From the Hardcover edition.

Product Description

A new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. This acclaimed new English version of Dostoevsky's last novel does justice to all its levels of artistry and intention.