Crime and Punishment: A New Translation
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. With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Boo...show more
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Another case of reading a book "because it's a classic" (whatever that means) and then being very pleasantly surprised to find that it's just a damn good novel with timeless insights into humanity.
Lots of good work on character development all round, but my favourite by far is Petrovich. Something about his calm, calculating instincts matched with piercing emotional intelligence that I really latched onto.
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Amazing, intriguing, engaging. You are immediately sucked into the story from page one; the portrayal of Raskolnikovs mental deterioration, Sonias unshakable compassion and purity, and most of all the portrayal of morality, alienation, and the necessity of suffering is unparalleled. One of the best books ever written!
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