'One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!'A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866). The impoverished student Raskolnikov decides to free himself from debt by killing an old moneylender, an act he sees as elevating himself above conventional morality. Like Napoleon he will assert his will and his crime will be justified by its elimination of 'vermin' for the sake of the greater good. But Raskolnikov is torn apart by fear, guilt, and a growing conscience under the influence of his love for Sonya. Meanwhile the police detective Porfiry is on his trail. It is a powerfully psychological novel, in which the St Petersburg setting, Dostoevsky's own circumstances, and contemporary social problems all play their part.

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-09-14
Mått:151 x 223 x 44 mm
Vikt:676 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
Antal sidor:544
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198709701
Översättare:Nicolas Pasternak Slater, Nicolas Pasternak Slater

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Nicolas Pasternak Slater has translated several works by Boris Pasternak, most recently The Family Correspondence, 1921-1960 (Hoover Press, 2010). For Oxford World's Classics he has translated Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time and Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories. Sarah J. Young is Senior Lecturer in Russian at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, where she teaches and researches nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature, culture and thought. She is the author of Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' and the Ethical Foundations of Narrative (Anthem Press, 2004), and co-editor of Dostoevsky on the Threshold of Other Worlds (Bramcote Press, 2006).

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Stylistic precision and neatness are qualities of Slater's translation... This is an ideal edition to prescribe for senior high school and undergraduate teaching... Young's Introduction lays a good foundation for readers who are new to Dostoevsky, and neatly covers all the major aspects of the novel in its historical context, within the editorial constraints of a translation.

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Cover page Halftitle page Series page Title page Copyright page Contents Introduction Dostoevsky’s Life St Petersburg: Literary and Social Contexts Motives for Murder: The Ideological Context The Divided Self Doubles ‘Realism in a Higher Sense’ Note on the Translation Note on the Table of Ranks Select Bibliography A Chronology of Fyodor Dostoevsky Map Other CRIME AND PUNISHMENT List of Principal Characters Explanatory Notes