Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Read Free Book Online

North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 1997)
    CRITICISM
    Carol Apollonio (ed.),
The New Russian Dostoevsky: Readings for the Twenty-First Century
(Bloomington, Indiana: Slavica, 2010 )
    Mikhail Bakhtin,
Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics
, translated and edited by Caryl Emerson (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984 )
    René Girard,
Resurrection from the Underground: Feodor Dostoevsky
, translated and edited by James G. Williams (East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press, 2012 )
    Robert Louis Jackson,
Dostoevsky’s
Quest for Form: A Study of His Philosophy of Art
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966)
    ___ (ed.),
Twentieth-Century Interpretations of Crime and Punishment: A Collection of Critical Essays
(Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1974 )
    Malcolm V. Jones,
Dostoyevsky after Bakhtin: Readings in Dostoyevsky’s Fantastic Realism
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990 )
    Y. Karyakin,
Re-reading Dostoyevsky
, translated by S. Chulaki (Moscow: Novosti Press, 1971 ). An engaging exploration of the questions posed by
Crime and Punishment
.
    W. J. Leatherbarrow (ed.),
The Cambridge Companion to Dostoevskii
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002 ). An innovative, wide-ranging collection of essays.
    George Pattison and Diane Oenning Thompson (eds.),
Dostoevsky and the Christian Tradition
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001 )
    Richard Peace (ed.),
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s
Crime and Punishment
: A Casebook
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006 )
    Lev Shestov,
Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Nietzsche
, translated by S. Roberts (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1969 )
    George Steiner,
Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: An Essay in Contrast
(London: Faber and Faber, 1960 )
    René Wellek (ed.),
Dostoevsky: A Collection of Critical Essays
(Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1962 )
    Rowan Williams,
Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction
(London: Continuum, 2008 )
    REFERENCE
    Kenneth Lantz,
The Dostoevsky Encyclopedia
(Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 2004 )
    Boris Tikhomirov, ‘
Lazar’! Gryadi von’: Roman F. M. Dostoevskogo ‘Prestuplenie i nakazanie’ v sovremennom prochtenii
[‘Lazarus! Come Forth’: F. M. Dostoyevsky’s Novel
Crime and Punishment
Read in the Light of Its Time] (St Petersburg: Serebryanyi vek, 2006 ). Some extracts from this important commentary are available in translation in
The New Russian Dostoevsky
, pp. 95–122 .

Note on the Translation
    The troublesome question ‘Why retranslate the classics?’ has perhaps only one satisfactory answer: because the translator hopes to offer a closer approximation to his or her experience of the original than is otherwise available. A new interpretation of a famous symphony or play is valuable simply for being itself, for being unique; the argument is less convincing when applied to a retranslation, if only because most readers cannot be expected to read long novels in multiple versions. For this reason it seems appropriate to set out what I have tried to achieve that I found lacking in previous translations – for all their other, non-replicable virtues. Only the reader, of course, can judge the result.
    The most widely read translations of
Crime and Punishment
have tended, in my view, towards a polish, and therefore tameness, absent from Dostoyevsky’s text (effects gained in large part by judicious trimming or padding); or else they have clung so closely to the Russian that the spell cast by the original is periodically broken by jarring literalism, and the author’s peculiarities of style, smoothed over in other translations, are made odder still. In my rendering I have sought to preserve both the novel’s spell and the expressive, jagged concision palpable from the very first sentence.
    Observations made fifty years ago by George Steiner about Dostoyevsky’s method helped set me on my way: ‘all superfluity of narrative is stripped away