best translations of brothers karamazov? read a lot about how

>>9431390
>read a lot about how p&v are shitheads
Do you mean the anti-semitism they added?

>>9431433
oh shit really? that is super fucked

>>9431390
Ignat Avsey if you're from an Anglo country. P&V for everyone else.

>>9431390
McDuff. In trying to be faithful to the original text P&V often end up with clumsy phrasing. Though I still prefer them to Avsey.

>>9431435
Ya it doesn't even fit with the time setting because a few characters mention oven-dodgers and "there weren't even 6 million jews in Germany".

>>9431611

I think it's worth noting that Dostoyevsky is known in Russia to have awkward prose, so P&V's awkwardness is more due to accuracy, rather than awkward literalness as you might find in a translation like Nabokov's of Lolita into Russia (for example).

>>9431390
Avsey

/lit/ has a new favorite translator every other month, just go for whatever's available. I once saw a picture showing the same paragraph by 4 different translators, if you really want to make the right decision.

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>>9433022
>discouraging conversation about the unique characteristics of translations

>>9431390
I can't recommend MacAndrew enough, although Avsey and McDuff are also good. Avsey is notably British.
Also there's a Garnett translation revised and edited by Macreynolds and also by Oddo that supposed to be great.
P&V are stilted garbage, which is really unfortunate because I love their everyman's edition covers.

>>9431433
>>9432024
Shit meme

>>9431390
Garnett is my favorite. I don't care about the plebs who argue about it at length. Look at a few comparisons, whichever flavor is the best to you, that's the one you should read.

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Anyone read the pic related edition? Never hear McReynolds brought up in translation debates, but Norton Critical is usually pretty good.

>>9433323
Norton Critical Edition is dope. It gives so much historical context in the footnotes. I can't imagine reading BK without those.

>>9433323
>Book cover is a random cropped painting
Why is this allowed?
There wasn't even a lake in TBK was there?

>>9431390
That Op image intrigued me.

Swetlana Geier by far.

Just learn Russian, fags. Pleasure of reading in original language worth all struggles learning it. There are a lot of high quality literature in rus so why don't you give a try and learn it?

>>9434096
Because it takes years to learn Russian to a level where you can actually appreciate authors like Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.