Translations
Greetings to all
I am not going to review this book other than to say it is one of the best I have ever had the pleasure to read. My point is in the translations. There were a couple of translations recommended. I cannot comment on those because I have not read them. I can contribute the translations of Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. I have read reviews from Russian speaking ladies and gentleman and they all by far recommend the translations I mentioned. Just a few lines to try and make the reading as enjoyable as possible..
Great book with 2 comments
I can't add much to what was written about this great book. However I have 2 points to bring up. First of all this is a terrible edition. The introduction reminds me of a High School essay and the layout is horrible with small font and tiny margins. The other point is that this book is very (too much for my taste) heavy on Christian philosophy, redemption etc...
Greatest Translation of "The Brothers Karamazov" Ever!!!
I have read the Constance Garnett translation of "The Brothers Karamazov" three times since I was a sophomore in high school, and it is still far superior to the latest translation that I read recently. I know Constance Garnett has had her detractors (i.e. Vladimir Nabokov & Joseph Brodsky), but the passion and poetry of language seems much more unaffected in Ms. Garnett's translation.
Enough though about translations, when I read "The Brothers Karamazov" as a 15 year old, it changed my life. I could hardly hold onto the book with the adrenaline coursing through to nearly bursting my finger tips upon consuming pages of epiphany after epiphany.
Perhaps generations since are raised assuming their right to the freedom of questioning and pursuing an independent investigation of truth, but in the late '60s this was not necessarily understood by a good dogmatically religious boy in Chicago. I was so fortunate that this right was inured in me through my steadfast scrutiny of the 800 pages of "The Brothers Karamazov". And still to this day, some 40 years later, I feel it is the greatest novel ever written. Through the years it is the closest that I have ever had of the meaning of life and grace confided to me.
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