The Karamazov Brothers

by Dostoevsky, Fyodor; Avsey, Ignat

• ISBN13: 9780192835093
• ISBN10: 0192835092
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-08-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The award-winning translation of Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel.

Author Biography

Born in Latvia but now living in London, Ignat Avsey is Senior Lecturer in Russian language and Literature at the University of Westminster.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi	(18)
Translator's Note	xxix	(2)
Texts Used	xxxi	(1)
Select Bibliography	xxxii	(1)
A Chronology of Dostoevsky	xxxiii	(2)
Principal Characters	xxxv	(1)
Time Chart	xxxvi
THE KARAMAZOV BROTHERS
From the Author	5	(4)
PART ONE	9	(196)
BOOK ONE THE STORY OF A FAMILY	9	(34)
1. Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov	9	(3)
2. The eldest son is packed off	12	(4)
3. Second marriage, second brood	16	(7)
4. The third son, Alyosha	23	(9)
5. Startsy	32	(11)
BOOK TWO AN UNSEEMLY ENCOUNTER	43	(74)
1. They arrive at the monastery	43	(5)
2. The old buffoon	48	(10)
3. Devout peasant women	58	(8)
4. Lady of little faith	66	(9)
5. Amen, amen!	75	(10)
6. A man like him doesn't deserve to live!	85	(11)
7. The careerist seminarian	96	(10)
8. A scandalous scene	106	(11)
BOOK THREE SENSUALISTS	117	(88)
1. In the servants' quarters	117	(6)
2. Lizaveta Smerdyashchaya	123	(4)
3. Confessions of a passionate heart. In verse	127	(10)
4. Confessions of a passionate heart. In anecdotes	137	(8)
5. Confessions of a passionate heart. `In free fall'	145	(9)
6. Smerdyakov	154	(6)
7. Controversy	160	(6)
8. Over a glass of brandy	166	(8)
9. Sensualists	174	(7)
10. Both together	181	(12)
11. One more ruined reputation	193	(12)
PART TWO	205	(206)
BOOK FOUR CRISES	205	(62)
1. Father Therapon	205	(11)
2. At his father's	216	(6)
3. An encounter with some schoolboys	222	(5)
4. At the Khokhlakovas'	227	(7)
5. Crisis in the drawing-room	234	(12)
6. Crisis in the tenement	246	(9)
7. And in the fresh air	255	(12)
BOOK FIVE PROS AND CONS	267	(86)
1. Betrothal	267	(12)
2. Smerdyakov with a guitar	279	(7)
3. The brothers get to know each other	286	(10)
4. Rebellion	296	(13)
5. The Grand Inquisitor	309	(23)
6. Still very unclear	332	(11)
7. `It's always interesting to talk to an intelligent person'	343	(10)
BOOK SIX A RUSSIAN MONK	353	(58)
1. Starets Zosima and his visitors	353	(5)
2. From the life of the Schemahieromonk Father Zosima, resting in the Lord, in his own words, as recorded by Aleksei Fyodorovich Karamazov	358	(34)
3. Concerning the discourses and teachings of Starets Zosima	392	(19)
PART THREE	411	(236)
BOOK SEVEN ALYOSHA	411	(48)
1. Odour of putrefaction	411	(14)
2. Here's an opportunity	425	(7)
3. A spring onion	432	(20)
4. Cana of Galilee	452	(7)
BOOK EIGHT MITYA	459	(102)
1. Kuzma Samsonov	459	(12)
2. Lurcher	471	(8)
3. Prospecting for gold	479	(13)
4. In the darkness	492	(6)
5. A sudden decision	498	(19)
6. Here I come!	517	(9)
7. The former and indisputable one	526	(19)
8. Delirium	545	(16)
BOOK NINE JUDICIAL INVESTIGATION	561	(86)
1. The beginning of civil servant Perkhotin's career	561	(7)
2. Alarm	568	(8)
3. A soul's journey through torments. First torment	576	(10)
4. Second torment	586	(8)
5. Third torment	594	(13)
6. The prosecutor catches Mitya out	607	(9)
7. Mitya's great secret. He is made a laughing-stock	616	(13)
8. Witnesses' evidence. The bairn	629	(11)
9. Mitya is taken away	640	(7)
PART FOUR	647	(304)
BOOK TEN SCHOOLBOYS	647	(58)
1. Kolya Krasotkin	647	(5)
2. Children	652	(7)
3. The schoolboy	659	(9)
4. Zhuchka	668	(7)
5. At Ilyusha's bedside	675	(18)
6. Precociousness	693	(7)
7. Ilyusha	700	(5)
BOOK ELEVEN IVAN FYODOROVICH	705	(118)
1. At Grushenka's	705	(11)
2. Painful foot	716	(11)
3. Little she-devil	727	(8)
4. The hymn and the secret	735	(15)
5. Not you, not you!	750	(7)
6. First visit to Smerdyakov	757	(11)
7. Second visit to Smerdyakov	768	(10)
8. Third and last visit to Smerdyakov	778	(18)
9. The Devil. Ivan Fyodorovich's nightmare	796	(20)
10. `He said that!'	816	(7)
BOOK TWELVE JUDICIAL MISTAKE	823	(128)
1. The fateful day	823	(8)
2. Dangerous witnesses	831	(10)
3. Medical evidence and a pound of nuts	841	(7)
4. Fortune smiles on Mitya	848	(10)
5. Unexpected catastrophe	858	(11)
6. Prosecutor's speech. Character sketch	869	(12)
7. Background history	881	(6)
8. More about Smerdyakov	887	(11)
9. Psychology let loose. Galloping troika. The prosecutor's summing-up	898	(13)
10. Defence counsel's speech. All things to all men	911	(5)
11. There was no money. There was no robbery	916	(8)
12. Neither was there a murder	924	(9)
13. Truth perverted	933	(8)
14. Trust the peasants!	941	(10)
EPILOGUE	951	(24)
1. Plans for Mitya's escape	951	(5)
2. For a moment a lie becomes the truth	956	(8)
3. Ilyushechka's funeral. The speech at the stone	964	(11)
Explanatory Notes	975