The Brothers Karamazov(卡拉马佐夫兄弟们)

Constance Garnett’s translation, the basic version in English of this Russian masterpiece, has been revised by the editor for accuracy and readability.
Dostoevsky’s sources for the characters and situations of the novel are set forth in an extract from Lev Reynus’s Dostoevsky and Staraya Russa and in selections from Dostoevsky’s letters and diary, all translated by Professor Matlaw.
Konstantin Mochulsky’s essay provides a general discussion of the work. Important questions as to the craft of the novel, its characterization, Dostoevsky’s symbolism, the Grand Inquisitor, and the theme of religious salvation are surveyed in critical pieces by Dmitry Tschizewskij, Robert L. Belknap, Edward Wasiolek, Harry Slochower, D. H. Lawrence, Albert Camus, Nathan Rosen, Leonid Grossman, Ya. E. Golosovker, R. P. Blackmur, and Ralph E. Matlaw.
Several of these selections are also recently translated from the Russian.
A Selected Bibliography is included.
作者简介：Ralph E. Matlaw was Professor of Russian Literature at the University of Chicago. He was the author of "The Brothers Karamazov": Novelistic Technique and translated and edited Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground and The Grand Inquisitor, Odoevsky’s Russian Nights, and Grigoryev’s Moral and Literary Wanderings. He also edited Tolstoy: A Collection of Critical Essays; Belinsky, Chernyshevsky, and Dobrolyubov: Selected Criticism; and the Norton Critical Editions of Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons and Anton Chekhov’s Short Stories.

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Dostoevsky’s towering reputation as one of the handful of thinkers who forged the modern sensibility has sometimes obscured the purely novelistic virtues–brilliant characterizations, flair for suspense and melodrama, instinctive theatricality–that made his work so immensely popular in nineteenth-century Russia. The Brothers Karamazov, his last and greatest novel, published just before his death in 1881, chronicles the bitter love-hate struggle between the outsized Fyodor Karamazov and his three very different sons. It is above all the story of a murder, told with hair-raising intellectual clarity and a feeling for the human condition unsurpassed in world literature.

This award-winning translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky–the definitive version in English–magnificently captures the rich and subtle energies of Dostoevsky’s masterpiece. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Ralph E. Matlaw was Professor of Russian Literature at the University of Chicago. He was the author of "The Brothers Karamazov": Novelistic Technique and translated and edited Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground and The Grand Inquisitor, Odoevsky’s Russian Nights, and Grigoryev’s Moral and Literary Wanderings. He also edited Tolstoy: A Collection of Critical Essays; Belinsky, Chernyshevsky, and Dobrolyubov: Selected Criticism; and the Norton Critical Editions of Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons and Anton Chekhov’s Short Stories.

Preface
The Text
　Pronunciation of the Main Characters’ Names
　Contents of The Brothers Karamazov
　The Brothers Karamazov
　Ralph E. Matlaw, Afterward: On Translating The Brothers Karamazov
Backgrounds and Sources
　A Brief Chronology of Dostoevsky’s Life
　L.M. Reynus, Prototypes and Heroes of The Brothers Karamazov
　From Dostoevsky’s Letters
　　To A.N. Maykov (December 11, 1868)
　　To V. A Alekseev (June 7, 1876)
　　To V.V. Mikhaylov (March 16, 1878)
　　To N.M. Dostoevsky (May 16, 1878)
　　To N.A. Lyubimov (January 30, 1879)
　　To N.A. Lyubimov (May 10, 1879)
　　To N.A. Lyubimov (June 11, 1879)
　　To N.A. Lyubimov (August 7, 1879)
　　To K.P. Pobedonostsev (August 24, 1879)
　　To N.A. Lyubimov (September 16, 1879)
　　To E.N. Lebedev (November 8, 1879)
　　To N.A. Lyubimov (Novemeber 16,1879)
　　To N.A. Lyubimov (December 8, 1879)
　　To N.A. Lyubimov (April 9, 1880)
　　N.A. Lyubimov to Dostoevsky (April 12, 1880)
　　To N.A. Lyubimov (April 13, 1880)
　　To N.A. Lyubimov (August 10,1880)
　　To N.A. Lyubimov (September 8, 1880)
　　To N.A. Lyubimov (November 8, 1880)
　　From Dostoevsky’s Notebooks
　　From Dostoevsky’s Writer’s Diary, The Kroneberg Case
　Essays in Criticism
　　Konstantin Mochulsky, The Brothers Karamazov
　　Dmitry Tschizewskij, Schiller and The Brothers Karamazov
　　Robert L. Belknap, The Structure of Inherent Relationships: The Buffoon, The Nadryv (Laceration)
　　Edward Wasiolek, The Brothers Karamazov: Idea and Technique
　　Harry Slochower, Incest in The Brothers Karamazov
　　D.H. Lawrence, The Grand Inquisitor
　　Albert Camus, The Rejection of Salvation
　　Nathan Rosen, Style and Structure in The Brothers Karamazov
　　Leonid Grossman, Dostoevsky as Artist
　　Ya. E. Golosovker, The Words "Secret" and "Mystery"
　　Ralph E. Matlaw, Myth and Symbol
　　R.P. Blackmur, The Brothers Karamazov: The Peasants Stand Firm and the Tragedy of the Saint
Selected Bibliography