The Brothers Karamazov: The Constance Garnett Translation Revised by Ralph E. Matlaw : Backgrounds and Sources, Essays in Criticism (Norton Critical Editions) (English and Russian Edition) - Softcover

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393092143 ISBN 13: 9780393092141

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1976

Synopsis

Dostoevsky s sources for the characters and situations of the novel are set forth in an extract from Lev Reynus s Dostoevsky and Staraya Russa and in selections from Dostoevsky s letters and diary, all translated by Professor Matlaw. Konstantin Mochulsky s essay provides a general discussion of the work. Important questions as to the craft of the novel, its characterization, Dostoevsky s symbolism, the Grand Inquisitor, and the theme of religious salvation are surveyed in critical pieces by Dmitry Tschizewskij, Robert L. Belknap, Edward Wasiolek, Harry Slochower, D. H. Lawrence, Albert Camus, Nathan Rosen, Leonid Grossman, Ya. E. Golosovker, R. P. Blackmur, and Ralph E. Matlaw. Several of these selections are also recently translated from the Russian. A Selected Bibliography is included.

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About the Authors

Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and many other novels.

Ralph E. Matlaw was Professor of Russian Literature at the University of Chicago. He was the author of "The Brothers Karamazov": Novelistic Technique and translated and edited Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground and The Grand Inquisitor, Odoevsky’s Russian Nights, and Grigoryev’s Moral and Literary Wanderings. He also edited Tolstoy: A Collection of Critical Essays; Belinsky, Chernyshevsky, and Dobrolyubov: Selected Criticism; and the Norton Critical Editions of Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons and Anton Chekhov’s Short Stories.

Edition details

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393092143
• ISBN 13: 9780393092141
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 912
• Editor: Matlaw Ralph E.