Warwick Stubbs’s Reviews > Demons > Status Update

I wish I was reading the Constance Garnett translation of this book. She's the editor that Dostoevsky needed for this overlong, time consuming block of a novel.

A boring chore this book has turned into. I've slogged my way through Part 1 and just can't bring myself to continue on. My hope is that I might be able to pick up a heavily edited version, perhaps an original Constance Garnett translation would do me better. Dostoyevsky just doesn't have the skill of a homourist, so much of the humour is wasted (especially if it fails in translation).

"With stern expressions they informed her that they'd considered the matter of her journal and had come to the following conclusions. Varvara had never authorised anyone to consider her journal or come to any conclusions." - p. 23