Zusammenfassung "These are the voices of Crime and Punishment in all their original! dazzling variety: pensive! urgent! defiant! and triumphant. This new translation by Michael Katz revives the intensity Dostoevsky's first readers experienced." -Susan McReynolds! Northwestern University Informationen zum Autor Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote The Brothers Karamazov! Crime and Punishment! The Idiot! and many other novels. Klappentext "Mesmerizingly good . . . the best! truest translation of Dostoevsky's masterpiece into English. It's a magnificent! almost terrifying achievement of translation! one that makes its predecessors! however worthy! seem safe and polite." -Steve Donoghue! Open Letters Monthly This Norton Critical Edition includes: . Michael Katz's "superb" (Times Literary Supplement) new translation of the world's most-read Russian novel accompanied by his preface and detailed explanatory footnotes. . Names of principal characters! a note on characters' names and a map of St. Petersburg. . Key excerpts from Dostoevsky's notebooks! letters and his early draft of Part II! Chapter 2. . Twenty-six scholarly essays on the novel from Russian! European and American sources. . A chronology and a selected bibliography.

Autorentext
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 translated over twenty Russian novels, including The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, Fathers and Children, and Notes from Underground.

Klappentext
"Mesmerizingly good . . . the best, truest translation of Dostoevsky's masterpiece into English. It's a magnificent, almost terrifying achievement of translation, one that makes its predecessors, however worthy, seem safe and polite." -Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly

This Norton Critical Edition includes:
Michael Katz's "superb" (Times Literary Supplement) new translation of the world's most-read Russian novel accompanied by his preface and detailed explanatory footnotes.
Names of principal characters, a note on characters' names and a map of St. Petersburg.
Key excerpts from Dostoevsky's notebooks, letters and his early draft of Part II, Chapter 2.
Twenty-six scholarly essays on the novel from Russian, European and American sources.
A chronology and a selected bibliography.

Zusammenfassung
These are the voices of Crime and Punishment in all their original, dazzling variety: pensive, urgent, defiant, and triumphant. This new translation by Michael Katz revives the intensity Dostoevsky's first readers experienced. Susan McReynolds, Northwestern University