The Second Edition of the Norton Critical Edition of The Brothers Karamazov is based on a significantly revised translation by Susan McReynolds.
The text is accompanied by a detailed introduction, a pronunciation and explanation key for the novel’s main characters, and greatly revised and expanded explanatory annotations.
“Contexts” presents a wealth of background and source materials relating to
The Brothers Karamazov, to Dostoevsky’s own experiences, to current events, and to observations on a changing society. Included are the correspondence of influential literary and social critic Vissarion Grigorievich Belinksy and the author’s letters spanning three decades as well as a selection from Dostoevsky’s
Diary of a Writer in which readers may trace the origins of this novel.
“Criticism” offers a wide range of scholarly commentary on
The Brothers Karamazov from American, Russian, and European authors, eleven of them new to the Second Edition and two of them appearing in English for the first time. Contributors include Ralph Matlaw, Valentina Vetlovskaia, Seamas O’Driscoll, William Mills Todd, Vladimir Kantor, Edward Wasiolek, Nathan Rosen, Roger B. Anderson, Robin Feuer Miller, Horst-Jürgen Gerigk, Vladimir Golstein, Robert L. Belknap, Ulrich Schmid, and Gary Saul Morson.
A Chronology of Dostoevsky’s life and work and a Selected Bibliography are also included.
Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and many other novels.
Susan McReynolds is Director of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern University. She is the author of Redemption and the Merchant God: Dostoevsky’s Economy of Salvation and Antisemitism. Her articles have appeared in Philosophy and Literature, Partisan Review, Dostoevsky Studies, and Literary Imagination.
Susan McReynolds is Director of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern University. She is the author of Redemption and the Merchant God: Dostoevsky’s Economy of Salvation and Antisemitism. Her articles have appeared in Philosophy and Literature, Partisan Review, Dostoevsky Studies, and Literary Imagination.
