Crime and Punishment

A New Translation

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Michael R. Katz (Middlebury College)

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Liveright
15 February 2019

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literature: history & criticism

"Published to great acclaim and fierce controversy in 1866, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment has left an indelible mark on global literature and on our modern world. Declared a PBS ""Great American Read,"" Michael Katz's sparkling new translation gives new life to the story of Raskolnikov, an impoverished student who sees himself as extraordinary and therefore free to commit crimes-even murder-in a work that best embodies the existential dilemmas of man's instinctual will to power. Embracing the complex linguistic blend inherent in modern literary Russian, Katz ""revives the intensity Dostoevsky's first readers experienced, and proves that Crime and Punishment still has the power to surprise and enthrall us"" (Susan Reynolds).

With its searing and unique portrayal of the labyrinthine universe of nineteenth-century St. Petersburg, this ""rare Dostoevsky translation"" (William Mills Todd III, Harvard) will captivate lovers of world literature for years to come."

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Translated by: Michael R. Katz (Middlebury College)
Imprint: Liveright
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 157mm, Spine: 36mm
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9781631495311
ISBN 10: 1631495313
Pages: 624
Publication Date: 15 February 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and many other novels. Michael R. Katz is the C. V. Starr Professor Emeritus of Russian and East European Studies at Middlebury College. He has published translations of more than fifteen Russian novels, including Fathers and Children and Notes from Underground. He lives in Cornwall, Vermont.

Reviews for Crime and Punishment: A New Translation

...lucid and pleasurable... new translation... -- New Statesman ... make Dostoevsky as readable and contemporary as Patricia Highsmith... superb... -- Times Literary Supplement