Crime and Punishment: A New Translation
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Alawys something new I reviewed Oliver Readyâs translation in 2015 and made a comparison of some differences between his translation and that of the Pevear/Volokhonsky translation. Leaving aside minor difference such as the use of âsofaâ for âcouchâ, I selected an important passage and compared both versions. In the Pevear/Volokhonsky version that passage (from Part III) reads:âWhat do you think?â Razmumikhin shouted, raising his voice even more. âYou think itâs because theyâre lying? Nonsense! I like…
On arbitrary justice and personal moral conviction His personal experience of a death sentence, a mock execution, 4 years in penal servitude and 6 years military service, all for an intellectual âcrimeâ of political thought, must have led Dostoyevsky to question the arbitrary and relative social definition of crime and punishment.He would also likely have gathered a plethora of case histories from his fellow prisoners. All this is woven into his tragic/comic tale of Roskolnikovâs crime. Napoleonic figures are allowed to set the…