Crime and Punishment - A New Translation

Informationen zum Autor Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote The Brothers Karamazov , Crime and Punishment , The Idiot , and many other novels. Michael R. Katz is 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 Crime and Punishment and Notes from Underground . He lives in Cornwall, Vermont. Klappentext So essential is Crime and Punishment (1866) to global literature and to our understanding of Russia that it was one of the three books Edward Snowden, while confined to the Moscow airport, was given to help him absorb the culture. In a work that best embodies the existential dilemmas of man's will to power, an impoverished student, sees himself as extraordinary and therefore free to commit crimes. English translators have struggled with excessive literalism and no translation is felicitous to the literary nuances of the original prose. Now, Michael Katz addresses these challenges with new insights into the linguistic richness, the subtle tones and the cunning humour in this sparkling rendition of Fyodor Dostoevsky's masterpiece. Zusammenfassung An event to be celebrated! a Dostoesvsky translation that fully captures the literary achievements of the original.

Product details

• Authors: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Dostoevsky Fyodor, Michael R. Katz, Michael R. (Trad.) Katz
• Assisted by: Michael R. Katz (Translation), Michael R. (Middlebury College) Katz (Translation)
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781631495311
• ISBN: 978-1-63149-531-1
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 233 mm x 33 mm
• Series: Liveright; Liveright
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: special features, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Psychological, Narrative theme: Interior life, Fiction: general and literary, Russian Literature, Classic fiction: general and literary