Richard Pevear and Lara Volokhonsky have recently translated Karamazov, Notes and Crime and Punishment. I enjoyed all three and they come in nice editions.

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>>7872228

Ah, I think I read their edition of Notes from Underground and liked it immensely. Is their version of Crime and Punishment better than Constance Garnett's?

>>7872252

I'm reading them for a college class, anon, ain't got no time for that

>>7872194
I've read many different translations and besides the wicked/spiteful differences in notes from the underground all the major translations are good.
I've read the following:
Short stories: magarshack
C&p: ready and Garnett
Notes: Garnett and p&v
The idiot: mcduff
Demons: p&v
The gambler: magarshack
Kalamazoo: avsey and p&v

>>7872277
>Kalamazoo
Lol meant Karamazov.

In a previous thread someone posted a link to an article by a professor of slavic literature. He translated Anna Karenina and said that P&V are a shit. Compared direct quotes from Garnett and P&V in the brothers K. Maybe you can find it in the archive.

>>7872292
Sure a professor of Slavic lit could nitpick some translations, but for the average to above average reader it really does not make a difference.
A few cherry picked quotes may be slightly off, but I doubt 95+% of people would not notice if they read both translations start to finish.
If you want to be very thorough, I guess I would trust the Slavic lit teacher (although if he has his own translations he may just be attacking p&v due to their popularity). The best thing to do if you have time is read a couple different translations yourself.

>>7872194
I saw her in church a number of times, she looks even taller irl

>>7872307
is this board not for literature? why should we not care about certain nitpick-y differences?

>>7872194
Go download different translations and read the first page on all of them. I did that and decided to go with Avsey for Karamazov. P & V seemed really stilted.

They're all good, Dostoyevsky is not poetic so there's not much lost in translation. Any good one will have notes on Russian idiosyncrasies/phrases/figures of speech etc. that wouldn't make sense to an English speaker. Barnes & Noble editions if I recall correctly satisfies this need.

just rule of thumb: the more philosophical the writer the less there is a concern for an extremely accurate translation. The more poetic, the more paramount it is to seek out specific translations...or in many instances to not even attempt to read a translation. Dostoyevsky's idol Pushkin comes to mind as someone who shouldn't be read at all in English.

>>7872357
Because you likely wouldn't even notice. If you really cared you would learn Russian. All translations have their positives and negatives.

>P&V
SHIGGY DIGGY

>>7872194
Constance Garnett is the best.

>>7872281
K ZOOOOOOOOOO

>>7872194
Oliver Ready is the best C&P translation.

>>7873238
Yeah it was really good. I haven't read them all too make that statement though.