Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and many other novels.
Michael R. Katz is C. V. Starr Professor Emeritus of Russian and East European Studies at Middlebury College. He has published translations of more than fifteen Russian novels, including Crime and Punishment and Notes from Underground. He lives in Cornwall, Vermont.
"This book weigh about two pounds, but I found it quite light. The
writing is good and clear; fuss has been eliminated. Katz's lucid,
unpretentious language opens up my favourite scenes, characters and
even monologues."
*Lan Samantha Chang - The Guardian*
"In 'The Brothers Karamazov,' now available in a lively,
fast-flowing new translation by Michael Katz (Liveright),
Dostoyevsky blended the family novel with the whodunnit, revealing
the capaciousness of the novel as a form and the power of blood as
a metaphor... [Katz's] is, by my estimation, the voiciest
translation of the novel thus far. He writes at the fever pitch of
speech, unleashing the speed and the chaos of the original."
*Jennifer Wilson - The New Yorker*
"Mr. Katz has accepted ungainliness in return for greater
intensity. His translation sharpens the sensation unique to
Dostoevsky, that of a man clutching your forearm and shouting
something into your face. It feels truly manic—though the better
word surely is 'ecstatic.'"
*Sam Sacks - The Wall Street Journal*
"Katz is the translator of more than fifteen novels from Russia's
golden age, by Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Herzen, and others. His
latest effort, a new version of The Brothers Karamazov, is every
bit as smart as his earlier work. Attentive to both style and
substance, Katz renders all of Dostoevsky's edges in sharp
relief. "
*New Criterion*
"[A]s enthralling and nightmarish as a modern psychological
thriller or film noir... the sheer vitality, the thirst for life,
that characterises all the Karamazovs sweeps the reader
irresistibly along. It is a work of restless energy and plenitude,
filled with unexpected reversals and revelations, at once raucous
and poignant, satirical and grand... exceptionally
charming. "
*Michael Dirda - The Washington Post*
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