- Paperback: 450 pages
- Publisher: Oneworld Classics Ltd (22 April 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 184749045X
- ISBN-13: 978-1847490452
- Product Dimensions: 19 x 12.7 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 285,251 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Oscar Wilde claimed that "Humiliated and Insulted" is not 'at all inferior to that other great masterpiece'; Friedrich Nietzsche is said to have wept over it. Its construction is that of an intricate detective novel interwoven with eternally topical themes. There is a new take on jealousy, radically different from Shakespeare's; and the reader is plunged into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma and above all of unrequited love and irreconcilable relationships.At the centre of the story is a young struggling author, a traumatised orphaned teenager, and a depraved aristocrat, who not only foreshadows the great figures of evil in Dostoevsky's later fiction but is a powerful and original presence in his own right. This new translation catches the verve and tumult of the original, which itself - in concept and execution - affords a refreshingly unfamiliar glimpse of the author. In structure it is more ordered, in plot and characterisation, more succinct and balanced than most of his later novels. The reader throughout is moved, shocked and above all - entertained, but never for a moment wearied.
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New translation and only edition in print of one of Dostoevsky's lesser known novels.
Includes photographs, a 10,000-word section on Dostoevsky's life and works, with a longer chapter on Humiliated and Insulted, anecdotes, critical perspectives, adaptations and spin-offs.
Lavishly produced on natural, high-quality paper, and affordably priced.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It may be that most people start Dostoevsky with Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics) and then, if they finish that at all, never pick up anything else by him - as for many years I didn't. Now this edition of Humiliated and Insulted is available, a far better place to start would be with this, and it would be a surprise if it did not kindle, or re-kindle, an interest in reading more Dostoevsky.
It's a well-paced detective story, replete with love interest, and the bonus that the young narrator is identifiably Dostoevsky himself. The setting and writing are of their time; mid-nineteenth century St Petersburg as described in the novel drawing ready comparison with the same period in London as described by Charles Dickens and, a little later, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The best known novels of Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White (Penguin Classics) and The Moonstone (Penguin Classics), also spring to mind; the former being more or less contemporary with Humiliated and Insulted, but The Moonstone not until Collins had had time to read and perhaps be influenced by Dostoevsky.
The One World Classics series is always worth attention, especially for its Russian works. This volume's 'Extra Material' includes a biographical essay about Dostoevsky by the translator, Ignat Avsey, a set of contemporary photographs, a sample chapter printed in Russian, and a set of truly useful Glossary notes that avoid the trap fallen into by some classics series of filling pages with definitions of reasonably common English words that those who needed to could readily find in a dictionary.
Highly recommended, only falling short of five stars because this early novel is not one of the absolute GREATEST of literary works.
It's a well-paced detective story, replete with love interest, and the bonus that the young narrator is identifiably Dostoevsky himself. The setting and writing are of their time; mid-nineteenth century St Petersburg as described in the novel drawing ready comparison with the same period in London as described by Charles Dickens and, a little later, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The best known novels of Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White (Penguin Classics) and The Moonstone (Penguin Classics), also spring to mind; the former being more or less contemporary with Humiliated and Insulted, but The Moonstone not until Collins had had time to read and perhaps be influenced by Dostoevsky.
The One World Classics series is always worth attention, especially for its Russian works. This volume's 'Extra Material' includes a biographical essay about Dostoevsky by the translator, Ignat Avsey, a set of contemporary photographs, a sample chapter printed in Russian, and a set of truly useful Glossary notes that avoid the trap fallen into by some classics series of filling pages with definitions of reasonably common English words that those who needed to could readily find in a dictionary.
Highly recommended, only falling short of five stars because this early novel is not one of the absolute GREATEST of literary works.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a moment for a double celebration. Not only is this a long overdue revival of an almost forgotten Dostoevski classic but it comes in a great new Ignat Avsey translation.
I once flipped through a library edition of the now out of date Constance Garnett version and was not impressed. But this is something completely different. The new translation of 'Humiliated and Insulted' draws you straight into Dostoevski's St Petersburg and a fast-moving detective story of young lovers, unforgiving parents, wicked aristocrats and sordid brothel keepers. Furthermore the central character and narrator is none other than the young writer Dostoevski himself.
The insights into the author's early life plus a mass of fascinating notes and additional material provided by the translator make this a must for all Dostoevski fans. And indeed at a mere 356 action-packed pages it would be a good starting point for anyone who has thought that Dostoevski's later great novels were too weighty to attempt.
As in his other translations,'The Karamazov Brothers' and 'The Village of Stepanchikovo', Avsey shows an amazing facility to be totally up to date and yet completely suitable for the period. At no point would you think for a moment that you were reading anything but the novelist's original prose.
It seems that these two guys were made for each other. So roll on the next Dostoevski/Avsey production.
I once flipped through a library edition of the now out of date Constance Garnett version and was not impressed. But this is something completely different. The new translation of 'Humiliated and Insulted' draws you straight into Dostoevski's St Petersburg and a fast-moving detective story of young lovers, unforgiving parents, wicked aristocrats and sordid brothel keepers. Furthermore the central character and narrator is none other than the young writer Dostoevski himself.
The insights into the author's early life plus a mass of fascinating notes and additional material provided by the translator make this a must for all Dostoevski fans. And indeed at a mere 356 action-packed pages it would be a good starting point for anyone who has thought that Dostoevski's later great novels were too weighty to attempt.
As in his other translations,'The Karamazov Brothers' and 'The Village of Stepanchikovo', Avsey shows an amazing facility to be totally up to date and yet completely suitable for the period. At no point would you think for a moment that you were reading anything but the novelist's original prose.
It seems that these two guys were made for each other. So roll on the next Dostoevski/Avsey production.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is not merely a superb translation--vivid, flowing, idiomatic--but virtually a rediscovery of a Dostoevsky classic that previous translations had consigned to oblivion. The intensity and pace of the original is matched by Avsey's version, which does not let you out of its grip till the last page.
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