| #74694 in Books | Dostoyevsky, Fyodor/ Maguire, Robert A. (TRN)/ Meyer, Ronald (EDT)/ Belknap, Robert L. (INT) | 2008-06-24 | 2008-06-24 | Original language:Russian | PDF # 1 | 7.80 x1.61 x5.10l,1.31 | File Name: 0141441410 | 880 pages | Penguin Classics
||15 of 16 people found the following review helpful.| THIS IS THE BEST TRANSLATION FOR AMERICANS|By Ernie Kotsos|First of all, I recommend getting the Maguire translation from Penguin, it's quite a bit more fluid than the P&V translation (which I've also read side by side). This is one of those books that you have to read twice. This book is very complex, kind of a dark Vanity Fair, with lots of characters coming||a Dostoyevsky was the only psychologist from whom I had anything to learn: he belongs to the happiest windfalls of my life, happier even than the discovery of Stendhal.a| aFriedrich Nietzsche
Dostoyevsky was the only psychologist from whom I had an
A superb new translation of Dostoyevsky?s chilling and prophetic novel of revolutionary fanaticism
Pyotr and Stavrogin are the leaders of a Russian revolutionary cell. Their aim is to overthrow the Tsar, destroy society, and seize power for themselves. Together they train terrorists who are willing to lay down their lives to accomplish their goals. But when the group is threatened with exposure, will their recruits be willing to kill one of their own to co...
