
The stylistic accuracy and versatility of registers used.

Fulfills in remarkable measure most of the criteria for an ideal translation. “One finally gets the musical whole of Dostoevsky’s original.” – New York Times Book Review Every page of the new Karamazov is a permanent standard, and an inspiration.” – The Times (London) It returns us to a work we thought we knew, subtly altered and so made new again.” – Washington Post Book World

scrupulous rendition can only be welcomed. The Brothers Karamazov stands as the culmination of his art–his last, longest, richest, and most capacious book.

“ at once the most literary and compulsively readable of novelists we continue to regard as great.
