The stylistic accuracy and versatility of registers used.
Fulfills in remarkable measure most of the criteria for an ideal translation. "One finally gets the musical whole of Dostoevsky's original." -"New York Times Book Review" Every page of the new Karamazov is a permanent standard, and an inspiration." -"The Times" (London) It returns us to a work we thought we knew, subtly altered and so made new again." -"Washington Post Book World" ÝThis¨ scrupulous rendition can only be welcomed.
"The Brothers Karamazov" stands as the culmination of his art-his last, longest, richest, and most capacious book. "ÝDostoevsky is¨ at once the most literary and compulsively readable of novelists we continue to regard as great.
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