everyman's library the brothers karamazov

The original translation of The Brothers Karamazov by Constance Garnett has been revised and reissued several times. We are unsettled by the illogicality, the doubts, reservations and conjectures, the shattering flashes of insight.” The Brothers Karamazov: translations in English We are outraged by the reek of corruption, the tearful humility, the deranged ecstasy, the carnivalesque scandal scenes, the lengthy disquisitions on saintliness and sin. Translators of Dostoyevsky face a monumental challenge to their sanity and endurance.

Several translators since Garnett have tackled this untranslatable mix of tragedy, metaphysics and comic melodrama…. It was received with raptures of love and loathing…. “Thirty years after Dostoyevsky’s death in 1881 he was still largely unknown outside Russia when Arnold Bennett persuaded Heinemann to comission Constance Garnett’s translation of his final masterpiece, The Brothers Karamazov. The Independent: “Patricidal passions in the abyss of nihilism” by Cathy Porter So you want to read Fyodor Dostoevsky’s last novel, the first half of a planned two-part project, a deep dark tale inspired by personal tragedy that explores faith, philosophy, and morality, and you don’t read Russian.įirst published as a complete novel in 1880 following serialization in 18, The Brothers Karamazov was first translated into English in 1912. “Which English translation of The Brothers Karamazov should I read?”

Everyman's library the brothers karamazov