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24 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Vintage, 2003

is it ironic, or pragmatic?
I had read just two Dostoevsy novel before this - 'The Brothers Karamazov' and 'Notes from the Underground', but lots of Turgenev and some other Russians - Kropotkin, Goldman, .... I also have some connection with Russian people because some of my work colleagues are Russian ex-patriots (one even carries a family name mentioned at one point in 'The Idiot'). Russian naming is difficult for ...

The Brothers Karamazov

112 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002

I occupy myself with this mystery because I want to be a man
Anyone interested in the central question facing mankind will find `The Brothers Karamazov' an essential guide. That question--on man's capacity for responsibility and the proper role of the state and religion--is posed throughout the story in dialogue and events, and is framed neatly in a 20-page section where Ivan presents a poem titled `The Grand Inquisitor' to his brother Alyosha. The chapter ...

The Brothers Karamazov (Everyman's Library)

217 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Everyman's Library, 1992

I occupy myself with this mystery because I want to be a man
Anyone interested in the central question facing mankind will find `The Brothers Karamazov' an essential guide. That question--on man's capacity for responsibility and the proper role of the state and religion--is posed throughout the story in dialogue and events, and is framed neatly in a 20-page section where Ivan presents a poem titled `The Grand Inquisitor' to his brother Alyosha. The chapter ...

Demons (Everyman's Library, 182)

32 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Everyman's Library, 2000

Not for casual reading...
Intense view into the soul of Russia before the revolution. Among countless other perceptions of a genius. Great book if you are interested in the life of Russian provinces. Or, if you are interested in how evil men get their way. Or if you are interested in super intense psycho analytical mambo-jumbo. Dostoevsky has the ability to make anyone drop their jaw and hold on to their boots. This ...

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky (Modern Library)

8 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Modern Library, 2001

Don't let the short ones fool you- this is the real thing
I've only recently begun to read 19th century Russian literature, lured there by a chance reading of 'Crime and Punishment' which floored me. Upon finishing that book I knew that Dostoevsky was the real deal and felt a smug assurance that I could go into the bookstore, buy another of his novels/collection of stories, and feel equally floored. So I bought this book. After purchasing it, I ...

Crime and Punishment (Wordsworth Classics)

2 reviews
Dostoevsky

Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2000

Crime and Punishment = Great!
I love this book. It is hard to get through the first half, but after that it is just amazing. Everything you thought was meaningless isn't. This is a must read.

Crime and Punishment (Norton Critical Editions)

11 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky

W. W. Norton, 1989

the Coulson translation can't be beat
Just a quick note to point out that if you're gonna read "Crime and Punishment" in English, the Jesse Coulson translation is indisputably the best one published to date. Avoid at all costs the Garnett translation (as ubiquitous as it is stuffy), and try to keep away from the recently done one, the Pevear and Volokhonsky job (said to be breezy and inaccurate). The Sidney Monas translation ...

Notes from Underground

136 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Waking Lion Press, 2006

Superb character development
The underground man is the best-developed character I have come across. A reader can take what they want from this book. Everyone's reaction will vary. I'm sure there are people who won't enjoy it but I can not imagine anyone not finding it thought-provoking

The Double and The Gambler

2 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Vintage, 2007

Dostoevsky's "Pulp"
These two short novels by Dostoevsky, are a change of pace fot the writer. "The Double" was written when the author was young and was sort of a "riff" on Gogol-style absurdity. Mr. Golyadkin goes to work one day and finds a man with the same name who looks just like hiim doing his job. What's worse is that the other man is more popular with the coworkers than he ever was. It is a darkly comic ...

Crime and Punishment

36 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Vintage, 1993

Crime and Punishment
What can I say that hasn't been said already? This is probably the best fictional study of the effects of guilt and radical ideas on a troubled mind. The prose is flowing, and it's not hard to see why Dostoevsky considered his novels "poems". Dostoevsky's works in general are marred by a flaw I prefer to ignore as much as I can, and in this novel it is hardly present. Dostoesky's politics are ...

The Brothers Karamazov

4 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004

A deep, psychological, verbose masterpiece!
The Brothers Karamazov is said to be the greatest and last novel written by Fyodor Dostoevsky. In reading the novel, one discovers why so. The novel is set in nineteenth century Russia, and deals with the story of three brothers, Dmitri, Ivan and Alyosha, and the events surrounding the murder of their father Fyodor Kamarazov. The father is a drunkard baffoon, who spares no thoughts or money to ...

The Karamazov Brothers (Oxford World's Classics)

12 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

The most magnificent novel ever written
I cannot take credit for the title of my review - apparently, Sigmund Freud said it first, and, while I cannot say that I would agree with Freud on every subject, I must say, unequivocally, that I agree with his statement about The Karamozov Brothers (with the caveat that, of course, I have not read every novel ever written, so, take the statement for what it's worth). My only lament regarding ...

The Brothers Karamazov: Classic Collection

2 reviews
Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc., 2008

Outstanding
I must admit that when I first began listening to this audiobook I did not care for the narrator's voice. After I made it to the second disk I began to more fully realize what a talented voice actor he actually was, and the remaining 28 disks or so were a great joy. His narration is delivered in a clear and warm manner and each character is given an unique voice and inflection. I will never be ...

The Adolescent

11 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Vintage, 2004

The Most Modern Novel I've Read in a Year
If you judge this book on plot and style - you would probably be inclined to toss it after the first hundred pages. However, plot and style are not parts of what modern art is all about. Every reader is, essentially, a passive consumer, sometimes endowed with a degree of healthy curiosity. And every writer's goal today, in my opinion, is to penetrate deeply into the heart and mind of such a ...

The Idiot (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

83 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Everyman's Library, 2002

Is the title ironic? or pragmatic?
I had read just two Dostoevsy novel before this - 'The Brothers Karamazov' and 'Notes from the Underground', but lots of Turgenev and some other Russians - Kropotkin, Goldman, .... I also have some connection with Russian people because some of my work colleagues are Russian ex-patriots (one even carries a family name mentioned at one point in 'The Idiot'). Russian naming is difficult for ...

The Eternal Husband and Other Stories

4 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Bantam Classics, 2000

Wonderful. Even better for Dostoevsky-philes
This is a fabulous collection. "The Eternal Husband" is quite interesting and features the trademark Doestoevsian psychological interplay (along the lines of that found between _Crime and Punishment_'s Raskolnikov and Porfiry Petrovich, or _The Idiot_'s Rogozhin and Prince Nikolaevich). However, the short stories included are, imho, superior to "The Eternal Husband." "A Nasty Anecdote" is a ...

Great Russian Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

2 reviews
Leonid Andreyev, Anton Chekhov, ...

Dover Publications, 2003

Stories by great masters, and stories of Incident primarily
'Dover Editions' do not provide the frills. We do not get a real introduction to the stories, to the Russian story in particular. We do not get notes on the stories. And we do not even get the names of the translators. But we do get some of the finest of all Russian stories. These include those by the great masters Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Gorky. I did not compare ...

The House of the Dead (Dover Thrift Editions)

23 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Dover Publications, 2004

Days of fear and hope
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "The House of the Dead" is one of the most powerful narratives about life in prison. A quasi-autobiographical work, the writer used the days he spent in Siberia prison to create powerful moments of sadness, fear and hope. Not many were able to be released from there, but he was one of them, and with this work he reminds everyone what it is about to be a political prisoner. ...

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Published by MobileReference (mobi).

464 reviews

MobileReference, 2008

A towering work of criminal psychology
It's seldom that I root for the evildoer of a novel or movie, but Dostoyevsky definitely had me doing it with "Crime and Punishment". Early in the novel, impoverished student Raskolnikov murders two innocent older women in order to make a quick buck (and also for deeper reasons revealed later in the novel). We then accompany Raskolnikov through the tumultuous aftermath, during which his ...

Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classics)

2 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Random House UK, 2008

Living Translation of an Alive Novel
Anyone who has delved into Russian literature knows the critical importance of the translator(s) - Tolstoy can be made brilliant or a bore, and the same goes for Dostoevsky. Translating one of the world's foremost novels is no small task, but Pevear and Volkhonsky do the work invisibly and artfully, capturing the dark but vivid language of Dostoevsky's ever-modern novel. From the psychosis of ...

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