The Double and The Gambler
$36.66
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2007
Summary
A new translation of two short novels by Dostoevsky—from the award-winning translators. First time in paperback.
Two award-winning translators present the definitive English versions of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s strikingly original short novels The Double and The Gambler.
“Pevear and Volokhonsky may be the premier Russian-to-English translators of the era.” - The New Yorker
The Double is a surprisingly modern hallucinatory nightmare—foresh…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375719011 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375719016 |
| Author: | Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2007 |
| Weight: | 261g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 131mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Vintage Classics |
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“Pevear and Volokhonsky may be the premier Russian-to-English translators of the era.” The New Yorker
“Pevear and Volokhonsky may be the premier Russian-to-English translators of the era.” –The New Yorker
About The Author
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Richard Pevear
Richard Pevear, along with Larissa Volokhonsky, has translated works by Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gogol, Bulgakov, Leskov, and Pasternak. They were twice awarded the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for their translations of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. They are married and reside in France.
Larissa Volokhonsky
Larissa Volokhonsky, alongside Richard Pevear, has translated works by Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gogol, Bulgakov, Leskov, and Pasternak. They were twice awarded the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for their translations of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. They are married and reside in France.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky’s life was as dark and dramatic as the great novels he penned. Born in Moscow in 1821, his early success with Poor Folk (1846) was interrupted by his arrest in 1849 for alleged subversion against Tsar Nicholas I. His experiences in prison, combined with a profound religious conversion, became the foundation for his major works. A period of destitution due to compulsive gambling was alleviated by his marriage to Anna Snitkina, which provided him with the emotional stability needed to complete Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1868-1869), The Possessed (1871-1872), and The Brothers Karamazov (1879-1880). Dostoevsky died in 1881, leaving behind a legacy of masterworks that profoundly influenced Western thinkers and writers, cementing his status as a giant of world literature.
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