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Title: Crime and Punishment [Hebrew Edition]
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Narrator: Moshe Beker
Format: Abridged
Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-15-16
Publisher: SonicBooks
Genres: Classics, European Literature
Publisher's Summary:
Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Abridged version.
Crime and Punishment is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky that was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in 12 monthly installments in 1866. It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoevsky's full-length novels after he returned from his exile in Siberia and the first great novel of his mature period.
Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished St. Petersburg ex-student who formulates and executes a plan to kill a hated, unscrupulous pawnbroker for her money, thereby solving his financial problems and at the same time, he argues, ridding the world of an evil, worthless parasite. Raskolnikov also strives to be an extraordinary being, similar to Napoleon, believing that murder is permissible in pursuit of a higher purpose.
Crime and Punishment was translated and produced by Talking Books.
Music: Ran Bagno.
Please note: This audiobook is in Hebrew.
Members Reviews:
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The two popular translations of âCrime and Punishmentâ before the 1993 translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, were by Constance Garnett and David McDuff. The Pevear/Volokhonsky translation became my favourite â until Oliver Readyâs translation came along. Not knowing a word of Russian, I declare my favourite only by the enjoyment I derived from reading the book in English.
Many things may indeed be lost in translation, and many others get misrepresented but we may not know. The result of reading only the English versions is that oneâs choice is largely subjective. Compared to the Garnett version, the Pevear/Volokhonsky translation seems very modern â until Readyâs came along. Little things like changing âhad notâ to âhadnâtâ renders Readyâs version not only a little more modern but also more informal. That is not to say that the atmosphere of old Russia is lost. Ready uses âfibsâ for âliesâ (Pevear/Volokhonsky) in one passage.
Ultimately, the reader has to decide for himself which style he enjoys more. Here is a comparison from one of my favourite passages (there are many) from the book. I set out first the Pevear/Volokhonsky version then the Ready version:
âWhat do you think?â Razmumikhin shouted, raising his voice even more. âYou think itâs because theyâre lying? Nonsense! I like it when people lie! Lying is manâs only privilege over all other organisms. If you lie- you get to the truth! Lying is what makes me a man. Not one truth has ever been reached without lying fourteen times or so, maybe a hundred and fourteen, and thatâs honourable in its way; well, but we canât even lie with our minds! Lie to me, but in your own way, and Iâll kiss you for it. Lying in oneâs own way is almost better than telling the truth in someone elseâs way; in the first case youâre a man, and in the second â no better than a bird. The truth wonât go away, but life can be nailed shut; there are examples. (Pevear/Volokhonsky)
âNow what are you thinking?â cried Razumikhin, raising even more. âThat itâs their lies I canât stand? Nonsense! I like it when people lie. Telling lies is humanityâs sole privilege over other organism.