Tracy’s Comments (group member since Dec 25, 2017)

Tracy’s comments from the The Idiot by Dostoevsky group.

Recommended books, web sites etc. on the Idiot. Please note if you are aware of spoilers or lack of spoilers on any website links you post.

I will be rereading the highly regarded Pevear and Volokhovsky translation (2002). However, Sophia on the LitnLife list says that she most likes the Ignat Avsey translation which I just ordered used on Amazon.

Here's a list of translations from the Wikipedia site:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idiot

Frederick Whishaw (1887)
Constance Garnett (1913)
Revised by Anna Brailovsky (2003)
Eva Martin (1915)
David Magarshack (1955)
John W. Strahan (1965)
Henry Carlisle and Olga Carlisle (1980)
Alan Myers (1992)
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (2002)
David McDuff (2004)
Ignat Avsey (2010)

Here's a page that compares about six translations of the first two pages
https://web.archive.org/web/201311092...
There's only a paragraph excerpt from P&V but you can read the first 3-4 pages of the P&V translation on the ebook links on the google.com/books site.

This topic is for planning our reading and discussion of The Idiot.

Pivnaya is Russian for beerhouse. This is where we hang out, have a beer and discuss anything except The Idiot!

Discussion of film versions of The Idiot

About Dostoevsky himself, particularly as related to his writing The Idiot

Considering and discussing the different translations