|
|
|
|
|
|
|
HELP | |
|
  $12.50 List price:
Used Trade Paper
Ships in 1 to 3 days
More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:
The Brothers Karamazovby Fyodor Dostoevsky (Pevear and Volokhonsky)
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880), is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons — the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice Alyosha — are all at some level involved. Bound up with this intense family drama is Dostoevsky's exploration of many deeply felt ideas about the existence of God, the question of human freedom, the collective nature of guilt, the disastrous consequences of rationalism. The novel is also richly comic: the Russian Orthodox Church, the legal system, and even the author's most cherished causes and beliefs are presented with a note of irreverence, so that orthodoxy and radicalism, sanity and madness, love and hatred, right and wrong are no longer mutually exclusive. Rebecca West considered it "the allegory for the world's maturity, but with children to the fore." This new translation does full justice to Dostoevsky's genius, particularly in the use of the spoken word, which ranges over every mode of human expression. Review:"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 translation — beginning to come home to the English-speaking reader." The New York Review of Books Review:"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 to us a work we thought we knew, subtly altered and so made new again." Washington Post Book World Synopsis:The award-winning translation of Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel. Synopsis:The award-winning translation of Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel. About the AuthorRichard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky were awarded the PEN/ Book-of-the-Month Translation Prize for The Brothers Karamazov and have also translated Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Notes from Underground, Demons, and The Idiot. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
Average customer rating based on 2 comments: | |||||||||
|
| ||||||||||
|
||||||||||
Don't Miss
