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Winner of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
A handsome new collectible edition of Pevear and Volokhonsky’s peerless translation of Dostoevsky’s masterpiece with a new foreword from Karl Ove Knausgaard.
The Brothers Karamazov is 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 sons–the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Fyodor 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 award-winning 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. It is an achievement worthy of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel.
Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: Fyodor Dostoevsky,Richard Pevear (Translator),Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
Published: 11/04/2025
Publisher: Picador USA
ISBN: 9781250398024
Pages: 880
Weight: 1.47lbs
Size: 1.65″ H x 8.19″ L x 5.55″ W
About the Author
Fyodor Dostoevsky was a Russian novelist and writer of fiction whose works, including Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, have had a profound and lasting effect on intellectual thought and world literature.
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.
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