Fyodor Dostoevsky's life was as dark and dramatic as the great novels he wrote. He was born in Moscow in 1821, and when he died in 1881, he left a legacy of masterworks that influenced the great thinkers and writers of the Western world and immortalized him as a giant among writers of world literature.
“[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
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