The Brothers Karamazov：The Garnett Translation (Norton Critical Editions)

ConstanceGarnett’stranslation,thebasicversioninEnglishofthisRussianmasterpiece,hasbeenrevisedbytheeditorforaccuracyandreadability.Dostoevsky’ssourcesforthecharactersandsituationsofthenovelaresetforthinanextractfromLevReynus’sDostoevskyandStarayaRussaandinselectionsfromDostoevsky’slettersanddiary,alltranslatedbyProfessorMatlaw.KonstantinMochulsky’sessayprovidesageneraldiscussionofthework.Importantquestionsastothecraftofthenovel,itscharacterization,Dostoevsky’ssymbolism,theGrandInquisitor,andthethemeofreligioussalvationaresurveyedincriticalpiecesbyDmitryTschizewskij,RobertL.Belknap,EdwardWasiolek,HarrySlochower,D.H.Lawrence,AlbertCamus,NathanRosen,LeonidGrossman,Ya.E.Golosovker,R.P.Blackmur,andRalphE.Matlaw.SeveraloftheseselectionsarealsorecentlytranslatedfromtheRussian.ASelectedBibliographyisincluded.