Required Texts
You
can buy all of these works by Dostoevsky at
the Colgate Bookstore. I
urge you to purchase these editions and bring them to class each day as we will
be discussing them in detail and referring to page numbers.
Most of them are recent translations by the husband and wife team of Pevear and
Volokhonsky. These come closer to capturing the spirit of Dostoevsky's
Russian than any previous translations into English -- another good reason to
buy them even if you own other editions. I will occasionally distribute other
short readings throughout the semester as xeroxes or electronically, but these
represent the vast bulk of the reading for the course (which totals about 2500
pages). The total cost of the books should be about around $60-$75.
In some cases, covers have changed, but you can see the books below.
Notes from Underground. Richard Pevear (Translator),Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator) / Paperback / Knopf Alfred A / August 1994.
Crime
and Punishment. Richard Pevear (Translator),Larissa
Volokhonsky (Translator) / Paperback / Vintage Books / February 1993.
Demons: A Novel in Three Parts. Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator),Richard Pevear (Translator) / Paperback / Knopf Alfred A / July 1995.
Poor Folk and Other Stories. David McDuff (Translator) / Paperback / Penguin USA / April 1989.
The Gambler. Constance Garnett (Translator) / Paperback / Dover Thrift Editions / 1996.