Insulted and Injured

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Overview

Last year, on the evening of March 22, I had a very strange adventure. All that day I had been walking about the town trying to find a lodging. My old one was very damp, and I had begun to have an ominous cough. Ever since the autumn I had been meaning to move, but I had hung on till the spring. I had not been able to find anything decent all day. In the first place I wanted a separate tenement, not a room in other people's lodgings; secondly, though I could do with one room, it must be a large one, and, of course, it had at the same time to be as cheap as possible

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412186049
Publisher:	eBooksLib
Publication date:	04/21/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	513 KB

About the Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881) was a prominentRussiannovelist and writer and is widely considered one of themost outstanding and influential writers of modernliterature.
Boris Jakim is the foremost translator of Russian religiousthought into English. His published translations includeworks by S.L. Frank, Pavel Florensky, Vladimir Solovyov,and Sergius Bulgakov.

Editorial Reviews

Richard Pevear
"Boris Jakim is one of the best translators from the Russian in our time. He has given us superb English versions of a series of major works from Russian philosophy, and more recently he has turned his hand to Dostoevsky. After Notes from Underground, he now offers us a fresh translation of an important and neglected novel, The Insulted and Injured, originally published in 1861, a fascinating prelude to the later 'novel tragedies' for which Dostoevsky is chiefly known. Jakim's ambition to 'get into the word-fabric' of the original is beautifully realized."

Christian Librarian
"The flow and the energy of Jakim's translation is absolutely refreshing. . . . It is completely faithful to the heart of Fyodor Dostoevsky's style, and at the same time, because of Jakim's careful choice of vocabulary, it gives the English readers an opportunity to find themselves more easily engaged in the story. . . . Contemporary readers will benefit from this faithful and intriguing English version of the classic Russian title."

Touchstone
"Boris Jakim's new translation is a joy to read. It flowed better for me than the more famous Pevear translation and includes saltier language and some of the most harrowing passages I have read in Dostoevsky."

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