An occasion to be celebrated, a “rare Dostoesvsky translation” (William generators Todd III, Harvard college) that totally captures the literary achievements of the original.

Published to nice acclaim and fierce controversy in 1866, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment has left an indelible mark on international literature and our glossy international, and continues to be identified around the globe as the imperative Russian novel. Readers of all backgrounds have debated its historic, cultural, and religious dimensions, probing the ethical and moral dilemmas that Dostoevsky so brilliantly phases all through his narrative. but, at its center, this masterpiece of literary realism is finally an immersive story of ardour and redemption—indeed, "the better of all homicide tales" (Harold Bloom), "most ideal in pacing and constitution. there is not any extra gripping novel on this planet" (Michael Dirda).

Now, acclaimed translator Michael R. Katz breathes clean lifestyles into this ageless vintage in a glowing new translation, with novel insights into the linguistic richness, sophisticated tones, and crafty humor of Dostoevsky’s magnum opus. Embracing the complicated linguistic mix inherent in smooth literary Russian that has supplied a very fertile resource of pictures and diction for Russian writers because the time of Pushkin, Katz recaptures the richness of tone and sign in of the novel’s such a lot poignant and important passages. delicate to this linguistic mosaic, Katz ably recreates the feeling of the unique Russian for the English reader, permitting the textual content to rouse an identical stirring emotional responses because the writer intended.

With its searing and detailed portrayal of the labyrinthine universe of nineteenth-century Russia, this masterful rendering of Crime and Punishment may be the translation of selection for years to come.