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Crime and Punishment |  | Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Creators: Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Book
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Rating:  46 reviews
Sales Rank: 11379
Media: Paperback
Pages: 565
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.5 x 1.5
ISBN: 0679734503
Dewey Decimal Number: 891.733
EAN: 9780679734505
ASIN: 0679734503
Publication Date: March 2, 1993
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With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Pevear and Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of Dostoevsky's classic novel that presents a clear insight into this astounding psychological thriller. "The best (translation) currently available"--Washington Post Book World.
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WOW! Truly Brilliant Literature! September 29, 2009
Alejandro Reyes (New York, NY)
Dostoevsky's ability to delve into and elucidate the darkest parts of the human psyche is truly a remarkable gift. It would have to take quite a commitment to confronting one's own darkness to be able to express it so well and have it feel so "normal" for the rest of us. It is said that existentialist literature has a way of making the reader feel as if his or her own thoughts and feelings were put down on paper by someone else. This work is no exception to that. As is the case with existential literature, do not expect a powder puffed treatise on life ending with a happy ending, for that is not the mark of this genre and certainly not of this author. Nevertheless, the work is hauntingly brilliant and despite the standard existential approach of no happy ending and a kind of "flattening" of the story line with no climax, this book actually leaves us with a hopeful ending of a deluded young man's growth and transformation partly via the experience of love and partly via the maturity of having to face the consequences of his actions by owning up to them. I loved that ending!
 Alright September 11, 2009
Ravanagh Allan (Melbourne, Australia)
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
But life's a bit short for books that are only 'alright'. I can't help thinking this book comes from a simpler world. One in which books like this can successfully compete for your attention. One with less books in it perhaps.
Take it to the beach. Go on, I dare August 28, 2009
Sirin (London, UK)
I read Crime and Punishment over this summer vacation. It is the perfect holiday read. You are immersed in Raskolnikov's guilt and passion, so the book has a cloying, claustrophobic feel right up to the final chapter. Nesting inside is a dark and turbulent account of Dostoyevsky's lament for Russian youth (which, like all great literary themes, is permanent) as well as Hugoesque descriptions of 19th Century Russian urban social conditions.
It is a packed and compelling thriller, as well as a philosophical treatise on the nature of human striving and place in the world. Don't wait until you find the time later -you won't. Take it on holiday.
One of my favorites August 1, 2009
Laurie Heinrich (LA, CA)
This book truly shows the greatest character analysis I have ever read. No other book has revealed the human condition in such great detail.
A BIG FIVE STARS May 27, 2009
Rodney J. Moss
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I didn't read that much until I was 16. In fact William Golding's, Pincher Martin was the initial break into literature. And the next was Dostoyevsky...Brothers K then this one. This was the book that made me, at 19 see the world differently, more acutely. Curious, I recently revisited to check out its hypnotic powers. Yep. it still has the effect of being in the heads of its characters in a unique way. And now, as then, it's not the persuasion and claim for R as an extraordinary man that is so compelling. It's the mastery of nuance. Just what toll this kind of intensity must have had on the author is hard to imagine.Reading 10 pages at a time is pretty exhausting. But its 10 pages of exciting and compassionate thought.
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