The Insulted and Injured
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Boris Jakim (Trans)Paperback 2011-07-07
The Insulted and Injured, originally published in 1861, was Fyodor Dostoevsky's first major work of fiction after his Siberian exile and the first of the long novels that made him famous. Set in nineteenth-century Petersburg, the novel depicts a group of people - including Vanya (Dostoevsky's semi-autobiographical hero), Natasha (the woman he loves), and Alyosha (Natasha's aristocratic lover) - all suffering from the cruelly selfish machinations of Alyosha's father, the dark and powerful Prince Valkovsky. Can pure love triumph over such heartless evil???Boris Jakim's new English-language rendering of this iconic Russian novel is more colorful, more conversational, and more accurate than any earlier translation.??"A suspenseful, melodramatic tale of mystery, cruelty, and thwarted love, The Insulted and Injured was originally published serially in 1861 in the Dostoevsky brothers' new magazine, Vremya (Time). The Russian public of the day, drawn to the book partly by its autobiographical elements, found the story moving as well as riveting. . . . Whatever else might be said of it, the book was undeniably an affecting page-turner with considerable cross-cultural appeal."
?- James P. Scanlan (from introduction)
-Publisher.
Publisher Description
A bold new American English translation of a classic Russian novel. Set in 19th-century St Petersburg, the novel depicts a set of characters all suffering from the cruelly selfish machinations of the dark and powerful Prince Valkovsky.
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The Insulted and Injured, originally published in 1861, was Fyodor Dostoevsky's first major work of fiction after his Siberian exile and the first of the long novels that made him famous. Set in nineteenth-century Petersburg, the novel depicts a group of people - including Vanya (Dostoevsky's semi-autobiographical hero), Natasha (the woman he loves), and Alyosha (Natasha's aristocratic lover) - all suffering from the cruelly selfish machinations of Alyosha's father, the dark and powerful Prince Valkovsky. Can pure love triumph over such heartless evil???Boris Jakim's new English-language rendering of this iconic Russian novel is more colorful, more conversational, and more accurate than any earlier translation.??"A suspenseful, melodramatic tale of mystery, cruelty, and thwarted love, The Insulted and Injured was originally published serially in 1861 in the Dostoevsky brothers' new magazine, Vremya (Time). The Russian public of the day, drawn to the book partly by its autobiographical elements, found the story moving as well as riveting. . . . Whatever else might be said of it, the book was undeniably an affecting page-turner with considerable cross-cultural appeal."
?- James P. Scanlan (from introduction)
-Publisher.
Publisher Description
A bold new American English translation of a classic Russian novel. Set in 19th-century St Petersburg, the novel depicts a set of characters all suffering from the cruelly selfish machinations of the dark and powerful Prince Valkovsky.