Crime and Punishment: Pevear & Volokhonsky Translation (Classics) (Classic Fiction S.) (Vintage classics)

by F. M. Dostoevsky

Richard Pevear (Translator) and Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)

Hailed by Washington Post Book World as “the best [translation] currently available" when it was first published, this second edition of Crime and Punishment has been updated in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth. • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME

With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky's astounding pyschological thriller, newly revised for his bicentenniel. 

In Crime and Punishment, when Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the tsars, commits an act of murder and theft, he sets into motion a story that is almost unequalled in world literature for its excruciating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its depth of characterization and vision. Dostoevsky’s drama of sin, guilt, and redemption transforms the sordid story of an old woman’s murder into the nineteenth century’s profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel.

• ISBN10: 0679734503
• ISBN13: 9780679734505
• Publish Date: 2 March 1993 (first published December 1914)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Imprint: Vintage Books
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 624
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780679734505

Reviews

[jamiereadthis]

I didn’t put this down for three days of vacation. Surf, sand, sun, and I was living with Raskolnikov in the dingy little room with peeling yellow walls, with poor Sonya and Svidrigailov, with Dunya and dear Razumikhin in the choked-up streets of Petersburg. I read it at night, all day, the little trips in the car even though I get carsick. I couldn’t put it down.

I may have— confession— loved it even more than Karamazov.

To have the story so ubiquitous, to have even the plot given right in the title itself, it’s a thrill at every turn, not in the least for the masterful way Dostoevsky breathes its people to life. Pevear and Volokhonsky once again nail the translation, and even the pacing captures the exuberance, headiness, hearty dread. The pages turn themselves.

And I have to say, Dunya is my favorite of Dostoevsky’s women. Thus far.