Dostoevsky, Fyodor

New York. 1997. October 1997. Bantam Books. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers. 0553379127. Translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. 308 pages. paperback. Jacket design by James Sinclair. keywords: Literature Russian 19th Century Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Dostoevsky displays his dark brilliance and satiric vision in four tales that vividly portray his all-too-human subjects. From a government official who shows up uninvited at an underling's wedding to prove his humanity, to a self-deceiving narrator who struggles futilely to understand his wife's suicide: from a hack writer who attends a funeral and ends up talking with the dead, to the protagonist of 'The Dream of a Ridiculous Man,' the very last story Dostoevsky wrote, an ecstatic and deeply ironic vision of a society based on love. THE ETERNAL HUSBAND AND OTHER STORIES is sterling Dostoevsky - a collection of emotional power and an uncompromising insight into the human condition. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose translation of THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV received the PEN Translation Award in 1991, re-create these seminal works as Dostoevsky wrote them, capturing the layers of nuance in the Russian original and the powerful, rough diction that truly characterizes Dostoevsky's prose. ‘Theirs is an adagio reading, distinctive and fresh, that returns us to a work we thought we knew, subtly altered, and so made new again.' - The Washington Post Book World on the award-winning translation of THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. inventory #22944 ISBN: 0553379127.