The Brothers Karamazov A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue

The award-winning translation of Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel. Richard PevearandLarissa Volokhonskywere awarded the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Translation Prize forThe Brothers Karamazovand have also translated Dostoevsky'sCrime and Punishment,Notes from Underground,Demons, andThe Idiot. Winner of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize This translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbal inventiveness of Dostoevsky's prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original. The Brothers Karamazovis a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the "wicked and sentimental" Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sonsimpulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, its social and spiritual strivings, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture. "This acclaimed English version of Dostoevsky's magnificent last novel does justice to all its levels of artistry and intention: as murder mystery, black comedy, pioneering work of psychological realism, and enduring statement about freedom, sin, and suffering . . . [The translators] come as close to Dostoevsky's Russian as possible."Joseph Frank, Princeton University "[Dostoevsky is] at once the most literary and compulsively readable of novelists we continue to regard as great . . .The Brothers Karamazovstands as the culmination of his arthis last, longest, richest and most capacious book. [This] scrupulous rendition can only be welcomed. It returns to us a work we thought we knew, subtly altered and so made new again."Donald Fanger,Washington Post Book World "It may well be that Dostoevsky's [world], with all its resourceful energies of life and language, is only nowand through the medium of [this] new translationbeginning to come home to the English-speaking reader."John Bayley,The New York Review of Books "This acclaimed English version of Dostoevsky's magnificent last novel does justice to all its levels of artistry and intention: as murder mystery, black comedy, pioneering work of psychological realism, and enduring statement about freedom, sin, and suffering . . . [The translators] come as close to Dostoevsky's Russian as possible."Joseph Frank, Princeton University "Far and away the best translation of Dostoevsky into English that I have seen . . . faithful . . . extremely readable . . . gripping."Sidney Monas, University of Texas "Absolutely faithful . . . Fulfills in remarkable measure most of the criteria for an ideal translation . . . The stylistic accuracy and versatility of registers used [by Pevear and Volokhonsky] bring out the richness and depth of the original in a way similiar to a fitful and sensitive restoration of a painting."The Independent(London) "No reader who knowsThe Brothers Karamazovshould ignore this magnificent translation. And no reader who doesn't should wait any longer to acquaint himself with one of the peaks of modern fiction."USA Today

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky were awarded the PEN/ Book-of-the-Month Translation Prize for The Brothers Karamazov and have also translated Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Notes from Underground, Demons, and The Idiot.