The Brothers Karamazov A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue

by Dostoevsky, Fyodor; Pevear, Richard; Volokhonsky, Larissa

• ISBN13: 9780374528379
• ISBN10: 0374528373
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-14
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Summary

The award-winning translation of Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel. Richard PevearandLarissa Volokhonskywere awarded the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Translation Prize forThe Brothers Karamazovand have also translated Dostoevsky'sCrime and Punishment,Notes from Underground,Demons, andThe Idiot. Winner of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize This translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky remains true to the verbal inventiveness of Dostoevsky's prose, preserving the multiple voices, the humor, and the surprising modernity of the original. The Brothers Karamazovis a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the "wicked and sentimental" Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sonsimpulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, its social and spiritual strivings, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian culture. "This acclaimed English version of Dostoevsky's magnificent last novel does justice to all its levels of artistry and intention: as murder mystery, black comedy, pioneering work of psychological realism, and enduring statement about freedom, sin, and suffering . . . [The translators] come as close to Dostoevsky's Russian as possible."Joseph Frank, Princeton University "[Dostoevsky is] at once the most literary and compulsively readable of novelists we continue to regard as great . . .The Brothers Karamazovstands as the culmination of his arthis last, longest, richest and most capacious book. [This] scrupulous rendition can only be welcomed. It returns to us a work we thought we knew, subtly altered and so made new again."Donald Fanger,Washington Post Book World "It may well be that Dostoevsky's [world], with all its resourceful energies of life and language, is only nowand through the medium of [this] new translationbeginning to come home to the English-speaking reader."John Bayley,The New York Review of Books "This acclaimed English version of Dostoevsky's magnificent last novel does justice to all its levels of artistry and intention: as murder mystery, black comedy, pioneering work of psychological realism, and enduring statement about freedom, sin, and suffering . . . [The translators] come as close to Dostoevsky's Russian as possible."Joseph Frank, Princeton University "Far and away the best translation of Dostoevsky into English that I have seen . . . faithful . . . extremely readable . . . gripping."Sidney Monas, University of Texas "Absolutely faithful . . . Fulfills in remarkable measure most of the criteria for an ideal translation . . . The stylistic accuracy and versatility of registers used [by Pevear and Volokhonsky] bring out the richness and depth of the original in a way similiar to a fitful and sensitive restoration of a painting."The Independent(London) "No reader who knowsThe Brothers Karamazovshould ignore this magnificent translation. And no reader who doesn't should wait any longer to acquaint himself with one of the peaks of modern fiction."USA Today

Author Biography

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky were awarded the PEN/ Book-of-the-Month Translation Prize for The Brothers Karamazov and have also translated Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Notes from Underground, Demons, and The Idiot.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
Richard Pevear
List of Characters	xix
THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
From the Author	3	(4)
PART I
A Nice Little Family
Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov	7	(3)
The First Son Sent Packing	10	(2)
Second Marriage, Second Children	12	(6)
The Third Son, Alyosha	18	(7)
Elders	25	(9)
An Inappropriate Gathering
They Arrive at the Monastery	34	(4)
The Old Buffoon	38	(8)
Women of Faith	46	(7)
A Lady of Little Faith	53	(6)
So Be It! So Be It!	59	(8)
Why Is Such a Man Alive!	67	(9)
A Seminarist-Careerist	76	(8)
Scandal	84	(8)
Sensualists
In the Servants' Quarters	92	(5)
Stinking Lizaveta	97	(3)
The Confession of an Ardent Heart. In Verse	100	(8)
The Confession of an Ardent Heart. In Anecdotes	108	(7)
The Confession of an Ardent Heart. ``Heels Up''	115	(7)
Smerdyakov	122	(5)
Disputation	127	(5)
Over the Cognac	132	(6)
The Sensualists	138	(5)
The Two Together	143	(10)
One More Ruined Reputation	153	(10)
PART II
Strains
Father Ferapont	163	(9)
At His Father's	172	(4)
He Gets Involved with Schoolboys	176	(4)
At the Khokhlakovs'	180	(6)
Strain in the Drawing Room	186	(10)
Strain in the Cottage	196	(7)
And in the Fresh Air	203	(10)
Pro and Contra
A Betrothal	213	(9)
Smerdyakov with a Guitar	222	(6)
The Brothers Get Acquainted	228	(8)
Rebellion	236	(10)
The Grand Inquisitor	246	(19)
A Rather Obscure One for the Moment	265	(10)
``It's Always Interesting to Talk with an Intelligent Man''	275	(8)
The Russian Monk
The Elder Zosima and His Visitors	283	(4)
From the Life of the Hieromonk and Elder Zosima, Departed in God, Composed from His Own Words by Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov. Biographical Information	287	(26)
Of the Elder Zosima's Young Brother	287	(3)
Of Holy Scripture in the Life of Father Zosima	290	(5)
Recollections of the Adolescence and Youth of the Elder Zosima While Still in the World. The Duel	295	(6)
The Mysterious Visitor	301	(12)
From Talks and Homilies of the Elder Zosima	313	(14)
Some Words about the Russian Monk and His Possible Significance	313	(2)
Some Words about Masters and Servants and Whether It Is Possible for Them to Become Brothers in Spirit	315	(3)
Of Prayer, Love, and the Touching of Other Worlds	318	(2)
Can One Be the Judge of One's Fellow Creatures? Of Faith to the End	320	(2)
Of Hell and Hell Fire: A Mystical Discourse	322	(5)
PART III
Alyosha
The Odor of Corruption	327	(11)
An Opportune Moment	338	(5)
An Onion	343	(16)
Cana of Galilee	359	(5)
Mitya
Kuzma Samsonov	364	(9)
Lyagavy	373	(7)
Gold Mines	380	(10)
In the Dark	390	(5)
A Sudden Decision	395	(14)
Here I Come!	409	(7)
The Former and Indisputable One	416	(16)
Delirium	432	(13)
The Preliminary Investigation
The Start of the Official Perkhotin's Career	445	(6)
The Alarm	451	(6)
The Soul's Journey through Torments. The First Torment	457	(8)
The Second Torment	465	(7)
The Third Torment	472	(10)
The Prosecutor Catches Mitya	482	(7)
Mitya's Great Secret. Met with Hisses	489	(11)
The Evidence of the Witnesses. The Wee One	500	(8)
Mitya Is Taken Away	508	(7)
PART IV
Boys
Kolya Krasotkin	515	(4)
Kids	519	(6)
A Schoolboy	525	(7)
Zhuchka	532	(6)
At Ilyusha's Bedside	538	(15)
Precocity	553	(6)
Ilyusha	559	(4)
Brother Ivan Fyodorovich
At Grushenka's	563	(8)
An Ailing Little Foot	571	(9)
A Little Demon	580	(6)
A Hymn and a Secret	586	(12)
Not You! Not You!	598	(5)
The First Meeting with Smerdyakov	603	(9)
The Second Visit to Smerdyakov	612	(8)
The Third and Last Meeting with Smerdyakov	620	(14)
The Devil. Ivan Fyodorovich's Nightmare	634	(16)
``He Said That!''	650	(6)
A Judicial Error
The Fatal Day	656	(6)
Dangerous Witnesses	662	(8)
Medical Expertise and One Pound of Nuts	670	(5)
Fortune Smiles on Mitya	675	(9)
A Sudden Catastrophe	684	(9)
The Prosecutor's Speech. Characterizations	693	(8)
A Historical Survey	701	(5)
A Treatise on Smerdyakov	706	(9)
Psychology at Full Steam. The Galloping Troika. The Finale of the Prosecutor's Speech	715	(10)
The Defense Attorney's Speech. A Stick with Two Ends	725	(4)
There Was No Money. There Was No Robbery	729	(5)
And There Was No Murder Either	734	(7)
An Adulterer of Thought	741	(7)
Our Peasants Stood Up for Themselves	748	(9)
Epilogue
Plans to Save Mitya	757	(4)
For a Moment the Lie Became Truth	761	(7)
Ilyushechka's Funeral. The Speech at the Stone	768	(9)
Notes	777