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Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment
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  • A major new translation of Dostoyevsky's enduring classic by Nicolas Pasternak Slater, with editorial material by the UK's leading Dostoevsky expert, Dr Sarah J. Young
  • The introduction gives a brief biographical sketch of Dostoevsky, focusing on aspects of his life most pertinent to the writing of Crime and Punishment—his experience of prison and the criminals he met there, and his money troubles in the 1860s when he was working on the novel
  • Provides an assessment of critical trends and approaches to the novel, detailing the literary and historical context, with emphasis on the Petersburg setting as a literary theme and a contemporary social context
  • The list of characters includes information on pronunciation and the range of diminutives used to refer to each character
  • The selected bibliography gives an up-to-date survey of works on Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, and the historical and cultural contexts of the novel
  • Notes elucidate potentially obscure references in the text, and also connect the novel to the wider context of Dostoevsky's writing and 19th-century Russian culture, citing other classics of Russian literature and accessible secondary works

  
'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 trial. It is a powerfully psychological novel, in which the St Petersburg setting, Dostoevsky's own circumstances, and contemporary social problems all play their part.

About the author: 

Fyodor Dostoevsky
 

Nicolas Pasternak Slater and Edited by Sarah J. Young, Senior Lecturer in Russian, University College London
 
 
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 (2013) and Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories (2015).
 
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).

"Superb... the Oxford University Press edition is beautifully produced and competitively priced." - Donald Rayfield, Times Literary Supplement

Product details

ISBN : 9780198709718

Author: 
Fyodor Dostoevsky; Nicolas Pasternak Slater; Sarah J. Young
Pages
544 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
129 x 196 mm
Pub date
Feb 2019
Series
Oxford World's Classics
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Crime and Punishment

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