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The Karamazov Brothers (Paperback)
Fyodor Dostoevsky; Translated by Constance Garnett; Introduction by A.D.P. Briggs; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Introduction by A. D. P.
Briggs. As Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is
violently done to death. The three sons of the old debauchee are
forced to confront their own guilt or complicity. Who will own to
parricide? The reckless and passionate Dmitri? The corrosive
intellectual Ivan? Surely not the chaste novice monk Alyosha? The
search reveals the divisions which rack the brothers, yet
paradoxically unite them. Around the writhings of this one
dysfunctional family Dostoevsky weaves a dense network of social,
psychological and philosophical relationships. At the same time he
shows - from the opening 'scandal' scene in the monastery to a
personal appearance by an eccentric Devil - that his dramatic
skills have lost nothing of their edge. The Karamazov Brothers,
completed a few months before Dostoevsky's death in 1881, remains
for many the high point of his genius as novelist and chronicler of
the modern malaise. It cast a long shadow over D. H. Lawrence,
Thomas Mann, Albert Camus, and other giants of twentieth-century
European literature.
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The Idiot (Paperback, Reissue)
Fyodor Dostoevsky; Translated by Constance Garnett; Introduction by Agnes Cardinal; Notes by Agnes Cardinal; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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Translated by Constance Garnett, with an Introduction and Notes by
Agnes Cardinal, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature
at the University of Kent. Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an
asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic
amatory and financial intrigues which centre around a cast of
brilliantly realised characters and which ultimately lead to
tragedy, he emerges as a unique combination of the Christian ideal
of perfection and Dostoevsky's own views, afflictions and manners.
His serene selflessness is contrasted with the worldly qualities of
every other character in the novel. Dostoevsky supplies a harsh
indictment of the Russian ruling class of his day who have created
a world which cannot accomodate the goodness of this idiot.
With an Introduction and Notes by David Rampton, Department of
English, University of Ottowa. Notes from Underground and Other
Stories is a comprehensive collection of Dostoevsky's short
fiction. Many of these stories, like his great novels, reveal his
special sympathy for the solitary and dispossessed, explore the
same complex psychological issues and subtly combine rich
characterization and philosophical meditations on the (often) dark
areas of the human psyche, all conveyed in an idiosyncratic blend
of deadly seriousness and wild humour. In Notes from Underground,
the Underground Man casually dismantles utilitarianism and
celebrates in its stead a perverse but vibrant masochism. A
Christmas Tree and a Wedding recounts the successful pursuit of a
young girl by a lecherous old man. In Bobok, one Ivan Ivanovitch
listens in on corpses gossiping in a cemetery and ends up deploring
their depravity. In A Gentle Spirit, the narrator describes his
dawning recognition that he is responsible for his wife's suicide.
In short, as a commentator on spiritual stagnation, Dostoevsky has
no equal.
Poverty-stricken and cut off from society, former law student
Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov leads a desolate life in a dreary
little room in St Petersburg. Having abandoned all hopes of
sustaining himself through work, he now obsesses over the idea of
changing his fortunes through an extreme act of violence: the
killing of an elderly pawnbroker. His mind baulks at the horror of
his plan, but when he hears that his sister Dunya is about to agree
to a loveless marriage in order to escape the advances of her
employer, his disgust for the world becomes unbounded, and his
feelings of rebellion and revenge push him closer and closer to the
edge of the precipice. A masterpiece of psychological insight,
Dostoevsky's 1866 novel features some of its author's most
memorable characters - from the temperamental protagonist
Raskolnikov to the amoral sensualist Svidrigailov and the immoral
lawyer Luzhin. Presented here in a sparkling new translation by
Roger Cockerell, Crime and Punishment is a towering work in Russian
nineteenth-century fiction and a landmark of world literature.
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The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"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
DONAGHUE, Open Letters Monthly
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Devils (Paperback)
Fyodor Dostoevsky; Introduction by A.D.P. Briggs; Translated by Constance Garnett; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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Translated by Constance Garnett with an Introduction by A.D.P.
Briggs. In 1869 a young Russian was strangled, shot through the
head and thrown into a pond. His crime? A wish to leave a small
group of violent revolutionaries, from which he had become
alienated. Dostoevsky takes this real-life catastrophe as the
subject and culmination of Devils, a title that refers the young
radicals themselves and also to the materialistic ideas that
possessed the minds of many thinking people Russian society at the
time. The satirical portraits of the revolutionaries, with their
naivety, ludicrous single-mindedness and readiness for murder and
destruction, might seem exaggerated - until we consider their
all-too-recognisable descendants in the real world ever since. The
key figure in the novel, however, is beyond politics. Nikolay
Stavrogin, another product of rationalism run wild, exercises his
charisma with ruthless authority and total amorality. His
unhappiness is accounted for when he confesses to a ghastly sexual
crime - in a chapter long suppressed by the censor. This prophetic
account of modern morals and politics, with its fifty-odd
characters, amazing events and challenging ideas, is seen by some
critics as Dostoevsky's masterpiece.
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The Brothers Karamazov (Hardcover, Reissue)
Fyodor Dostoevsky; Introduction by Malcolm V. Jones; Translated by Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
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A magnificent new translation of Dostoevsky's masterpiece, which
when first published in 1991 was described by the TIMES as 'a
miracle' and by THE INDEPENDENT as a near 'ideal translation'. The
BROTHERS KARAMAZOV - Dostoevsky's most widely read novel - is at
once a murder mystery, a mordant comedy of family intrigue, a
pioneering work of psychological realism and an unblinking look
into the abyss of human suffering.
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Notes from Underground (Paperback)
Fyodor Dostoevsky; Translated by Kyril Zinovieff, Jenny Hughes
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The unnamed narrator of the novel, a former government official,
has decided to retire from the world and lead a life of inactivity
and contemplation. His fiercely bitter, cynical and witty monologue
ranges from general observations and philosophical musings to
memorable scenes from his own life, including his obsessive plans
to exact revenge on an officer who has shown him disrespect and a
dramatic encounter with a prostitute. Seen by many as the first
existentialist novel and showcasing the best of Dostoevsky's dry
humour, Notes from Underground was a pivotal moment in the
development of modern literature and has inspired countless
novelists, thinkers and film-makers.
After spending several years in a sanatorium recovering from an
illness that caused him to lose his memory and ability to reason,
Prince Myshkin arrives in St Petersburg and is at once confronted
with the stark realities of life in the Russian capital - from
greed, murder and nihilism to passion, vanity and love. Mocked for
his childlike naivety yet valued for his openness and
understanding, Prince Myshkin finds himself entangled with two
women in a position he cannot bring himself to resolve. Dostoevsky,
who wrote that in the character of Prince Myshkin he hoped to
portray a "wholly virtuous man", shows the workings of the human
mind and our relationships with others in all their complex and
contradictory nature. Populated by an unforgettable cast of
characters, from the beautiful, self-destructive Nastasya
Filippovna to the dangerously obsessed Rogozhin and the radical
student Ippolit, The Idiot is one of Dostoevsky's most personal and
intense works of fiction.
'A truly great translation . . . This English version really is
better' - A. N. Wilson, The Spectator TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014 This acclaimed new translation of
Dostoyevsky's 'psychological record of a crime' gives his dark
masterpiece of murder and pursuit a renewed vitality, expressing
its jagged, staccato urgency and fevered atmosphere as never
before. Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student,
wanders alone through the slums of St. Petersburg, deliriously
imagining himself above society's laws. But when he commits a
random murder, only suffering ensues. Embarking on a dangerous game
of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov
finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only
Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer the chance of
redemption. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) was born in Moscow and
made his name in 1846 with the novella Poor Folk. He spent several
years in prison in Siberia as a result of his political activities,
an experience which formed the basis of The House of the Dead. In
later life, he fell in love with a much younger woman and developed
a ruinous passion for roulette. His subsequent great novels include
Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons and
The Brothers Karamazov. Oliver Ready is Research Fellow in Russian
Society and Culture at St Antony's College, Oxford. He is general
editor of the anthology, The Ties of Blood: Russian Literature from
the 21st Century (2008), and Consultant Editor for Russia, Central
and Eastern Europe at the Times Literary Supplement.
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