Author(s): Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Michael R. Katz)

Novel | Russia

"Mesmerizingly good . . . the best, truest translation of Dostoevsky's masterpiece into English. It's a magnificent, almost terrifying achievement of translation, one that makes its predecessors, however worthy, seem safe and polite." --Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

• Michael Katz's new translation of the world's most-read Russian novel accompanied by his preface and detailed explanatory footnotes.


• Names of Principal Characters, a Note on Character's Names, and a map of St. Petersburg.


• Key excerpts from Dostoevsky's notebooks, letters, and his early draft of Part II, Chapter 2.


• Twenty-six scholarly essays on the novel from Russian, European, and American sources.


• A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.

Author Biography: Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and many other novels. Michael R. Katz is C. V. Starr Professor Emeritus of Russian and East European Studies at Middlebury College. He has published translations of more than fifteen Russian novels, including Crime and Punishment and Notes from Underground. He lives in Cornwall, Vermont.