The Insulted and Injured, originally published in 1861, is Fyodor Dostoevsky?'s first major work of fiction after his Siberian exile and the first of the long novels for which he is famous. Set in nineteenth-century Petersburg, the novel depicts a group of people suffering from the cruel and selfish machinations of a dark and powerful prince. Can pure love overcome such evil?
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"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."
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A fluid translation of an overlooked work
Nov 16 2011
By Paul E. Richardson
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This is the first new translation in over three decades of the first novel Dostoyevsky wrote after returning from his Siberian exile. A melodramatic tale that features a semi-autobiographical hero struggling with the ideas of Utopianism and evil, it has always been more successful with the public than with critics. The Insulted and Injured shows us the young Dostoyevsky as gifted storyteller. Jakim's fluid translation modernizes this suspense story and should help it reach those eager to read beyond the customary Dostoyevsky canon.
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