For some reason, this translation feels a bit awkward to me, and McDuff has a choice of words and a style that hinder more than help me. In this version, MacAndrew leads the way in portraying the mother and her daughter in front of me. I liked the Penguin edition - David McDuff. — Что делать! Finally, an interesting remark from Avsey, is that the book should be called “The Karamazov Brothers” since that is the order of words English speaking people use: One need go no further than the title, the standard English rendering of which is The Brothers Karamazov.

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. Mrs Khokhlakova, a wealthy lady, always dressed with taste, was still quite young and very comely in appearance, somewhat pale-skinned, with very lively, almost completely black eyes. . . “I can’t help it, I am not God!” the doctor answered offhand, though with the customary impressiveness. She had a charming little face, somewhat thin from her illness, but full of gaiety. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself. A translation that has gained a lot of attention, positive as well as negative, is the one from Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. . Posted by u/[deleted] 7 years ago. I was… well, I was forty-five then, and had only just come here. — Доктор… Ваше превосходительство… и скоро это, скоро? Hers was a lovely little face, a bit thin from illness, but cheerful. And now, alas!…” — один ум хорошо, а два гораздо лучше. . I also just bought TBK by them (didn't have their translation at any libraries near me unfortunately).

“Nuts?” Go at your own pace A certain note of sensitivity and emotion was suddenly heard in the honest old man’s voice.

И тогда я вспомнил мою счастливую молодость и бедного мальчика на дворе без сапожек, и у меня повернулось сердце, и я сказал: «Ты благодарный молодой человек, ибо всю жизнь помнил тот фунт орехов, который я тебе принес в твоем детстве» И я обнял его и благословил. Oh, I remember him very well, a little chap so high, left neglected by his father in the back yard, when he ran about without boots on his feet, and his little breeches hanging by one button.” I’ve forgotten what it’s called. The old man was fond of making jokes. Are there any other that are better? I found as you probably did that most Internet sources will point you to P&V.

“You must be prepared for anything,” said the doctor in emphatic and incisive tones, and dropping his eyes, he was about to step out to the coach.

He laughed, but he shed tears, too… for the Russian often laughs when he ought to be weeping.

Professionally: Works as Communications Manager at www.haldex.com, Choosing the best Karamazov translation for you, The Double by Dostoyevsky – a movie that saves this year of movies. Dmitri (Mitya) is on trial for murder. She was no more than thirty-three, and she had already been a widow for some five years. I picked it up on a whim, and really enjoyed it. Where translators share their stories and where clients find professional translators. The poor young girl had been unable to walk for the past half-year, and she was wheeled about in a long bath chair.

The doctor was just coming out of the room, already wrapped up in his fur coat and with his hat on his head.

. I have just arrived and have come to thank you for that pound of nuts, for no one else ever bought me a pound of nuts; you are the only one that ever did.’ And then I remembered my happy youth and the poor child in the yard, without boots on his feet, and my heart was touched and I said, ‘You are a grateful young man, for you have remembered all your life the pound of nuts I bought you in your childhood.’ And I embraced him and blessed him. А я ушел. It is our intent and purpose to foster and encourage in-depth discussion about all things related to books, authors, genres, or publishing in a safe, supportive environment. You don't have to quit your day job in order to get started as a freelance translator. But he was taken away, and I did not see him again. — О н-не-е-ет!

“Quite so, nuts, I say so.” The doctor repeated in the calmest way as though he had been at no loss for a word. And yet he was a grateful and sensitive boy. A previous article on The Open Mic contrasted Constance Garnett, who in the early 20th century translated great Russian authors into English, with the translation team of Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear, who in the 1990s again translated into English several Russian classics, starting with Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.

Having ceased to respect everyone, he stops loving, and then, in the absence of love, in order to occupy and divert himself, he abandons himself to passions and the gratification of coarse pleasures until his vices bring him down to the level of bestiality, and all on account of his being constantly false both to himself and to others. — При-го-товь-тесь ко всему, — отчеканил, ударяя по каждому слогу, доктор и, склонив взор, сам приготовился было шагнуть за порог к карете. This is a moderated subreddit. How do you say, where did he send it? Initially, I found the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation to be the best, but all the sharp remarks about this translation destroying Dostoyevsky’s text made me look around a bit more. The Russian is after the English. But perhaps you will find something, if not in the vocabulary then in the patterns of speech or the way the phrases are constructed. I've only read their Anna Karenina (fantastic and highly recommended) Crime and Punishment, and Notes from the Underground. She could not have been more than thirty-three years old and had been a widow for about five years. It's justifiably considered the best in terms of scholarship as well as readability. “And I’m weeping now, too, German, I’m weeping now, too, you man of God!” Mitya suddenly cried from his place. Privately: Father, husband, vegetarian, and reader of Dostoyevsky. From The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Book 10, Chapter 7, Translation by Constance Garnett. The poor girl had been unable to walk for about half a year already, and was wheeled around in a long, comfortable chair.

For me, who has English as a second language, this is a good translation although it feels a bit formal. I forget what it‘s called. He cast a cursory glance round the passage, looking sternly at Alyosha and Kolya as he did so. Volokhonsky and Pevear felt that Dostoevsky’s humor as well as his lively expressiveness had been ‘lost in translation.’ As an example, they referred to a passage in the novel where a pompous doctor comes to visit the boy Ilyusha, who is very sick and dying.

I like P&V's translations. ?” the doctor again waved his hand.

Фунт, фунт, яблоки десяток, а не фунт… нет, их много и всё маленькие, кладут в рот и кр-р-рах!.. “It grows on a tree and is gathered and given to everyone…”

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I am sitting one morning in my study, a white-haired old man, when there walks into the room a blooming young man, whom I should never have recognised, but he held up his finger and said, laughing, ‘Gott der Vater, Gott der Sohn, and Gott der heilige Geist.

Send Message. and highly prizing his flat, dull and always gleefully complacent German wit. Her fourteen-year-old daughter suffered from paralysis of the legs. — Ваше превосходительство, ваше превосходительство… неужели?.. — продолжал он, вертя рукой пред своими глазами,

For example, he describes the mother as “very pretty” instead of comely in appearance, or pleasant to the gaze. . Алеша махнул из дверей кучеру, и карета, привезшая доктора, подъехала к выходным дверям. But he wept, too, I saw it. This article explains why the P/V translation is preferred. Twenty-three years passed.

“Doctor . What do you think? Her fourteen-year-old daughter was afflicted by a palsy of the legs. The poor fellow looked utterly crushed; there was a scared look in his eyes.

И я заплакал. Her fourteen-year-old daughter suffered from paralysis of the legs. Close. This book has many English translations, and I have gone back and forth between them before ending in the Oxford World’s Classics version, translated by Ignat Avsey as “The Karamazov Brothers.” There is, of course, no “best” translation of any book, but here I will show you why this translation works best for me. Старичок же любил острить A note of feeling and tenderness suddenly came into the honest old man’s voice. I repeat, it was not stupidity —the majority of these fantastical fellows are shrewd and intelligent enough—but just senselessness, and a peculiar national form of it. Or any others I should read in addition? Respecting no one, he loves no one, and to amuse and divert himself in the absence of love he gives himself up to his passions and to vulgar delights and becomes a complete animal in his vices, and all of it from perpetual lying to other people and himself. Which translation of The Brothers Karamazov should I Read?

Мельком окинул он глазами сени и при этом строго глянул на Алешу и Колю. As a final comparison, we can hear the different versions of how Mrs. Khoklakova and her daughter Lise are introduced: Mrs Khokhlakova, a wealthy lady, always dressed with taste, was still quite young and very comely in appearance, somewhat pale-skinned, with very lively, almost completely black eyes. Where did they go? Gott der Vater,’ and he laughed and said, ‘Gott der Vater.’ ‘Gott der Sohn.’ Again he laughed and said, ‘Gott der Sohn.’ ‘Gott der heilige Geist.’ Then he laughed again and said as well as he could, ‘Gott der heilige Geistf’ And I left. You put them in the mouth and crack.”

Я не бог, — небрежным, хотя и привычно внушительным голосом ответил доктор. “Oh, n-n-no!

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Their version of the same text is: A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others.

“And I am weeping now, German, I am weeping now, too, you saintly man,” Mitya cried suddenly. “It grows on a tree, they gather it and give it to everyone. And I lifted my finger and said to him, ‘Boy, Gott der Vater.’ He laughed and said, ‘Gott der Vater’… ‘Gott der Sohn.’ He laughed again and lisped ‘Gott der Sohn.’ ‘Gott der heilige Geist.’ Then he laughed and said as best he could, ‘Gott der heilige Geist.’ I went away, and two days after I happened to be passing, and he shouted to me of himself, ‘Uncle, Gott der Vater, Gott der Sohn,’ and he had only forgotten ‘Gott der heilige Geist.’ But I reminded him of it and I felt very sorry for him again. И мне стало тогда жаль мальчика, и я спросил себя: почему я не могу купить ему один фунт… Ну да, чего фунт?

— ну, как это… I am an unpleasant man. and will it be soon, soon?” — И теперь плачу, немец, и теперь плачу, божий ты человек! Press J to jump to the feed. Archived.

There is something about the rhythm and choice of words that appeal to me, and that helps me understand the characters.

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