Larissa Volokhonsky Livres

Il y a le père, Fiodor Pavlovitch, riche, malhonnête et debauché, et ses trois fils légitimes: Mitia, impulsif, orgueilleux, sauvage; Yvan, intellectuel, raffiné, intransigeant; Alliocha, sincère, pieux, naïf. Et puis il y a le fils illégitime : Smerdiakov, libertin cynique vivant en serviteur chez son père. Roman complet et flamboyant, les frères Karamazov rassemble une intrigue policière, plusieurs histoires d'amour, des exposés théologiques et métaphysiques éblouissants et des personnages inoubliables. Sans doute le chef-d'oeuvre de Dostoïevki.

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to The Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, a collection of thirty of Chekhov’s best tales from the major periods of his creative life. Considered the greatest short story writer, Anton Chekhov changed the genre itself with his spare, impressionistic depictions of Russian life and the human condition. From characteristically brief, evocative early pieces such as “The Huntsman” and the tour de force “A Boring Story,” to his best-known stories such as “The Lady with the Little Dog” and his own personal favorite, “The Student,” Chekhov’s short fiction possesses the transcendent power of art to awe and change the reader. This monumental edition, expertly translated, is especially faithful to the meaning of Chekhov’s prose and the unique rhythms of his writing, giving readers an authentic sense of his style and a true understanding of his greatness.

En gare de Moscou, deux jeunes gens s'aiment au premier regard. Femme d'un haut fonctionnaire, ornement de la société tsariste de son temps, Anna Karénine éblouit le frivole comte Wronsky, par sa grâce, son élégance et sa gaieté. A ce bonheur, à cette passion réciproque porteuse de scandale et de destruction, ils ne résistent pas longtemps. En écho à cette tragédie programmée, on entend toute l'âme d'un peuple et les premiers craquements de l'Empire russe en train de se lézarder. L'inoubliable Anna Karénine, c'est l'apogée du génie littéraire de l'auteur de Guerre et Paix.

Ce volume contient - ''L' Adolescent'', ''Les Nuits blanches'', ''Le Sous-sol'', ''L'Éternel mari''.

« Ma charmante, mon inoubliable ! Tant que les creux de mes bras se souviendront de toi, tant que tu seras encore sur mon épaule et sur mes lèvres, je serai avec toi. Je mettrai toutes mes larmes dans quelque chose qui soit digne de toi, et qui reste. J'inscrirai ton souvenir dans des images tendres, tendres, tristes à vous fendre le cœur. Je resterai ici jusqu'à ce que ce soit fait. Et ensuite je partirai moi aussi. »

The award-winning translators bring us a new translation of an 1870 comic novel by Russia's greatest satirist—whose mockery of Russian autocracy is as relevant as ever. “Pevear and Volokhonsky [are the] reigning translators of Russian literature. . . . In Russia, The History of a Town is read in schools and regarded as a masterpiece of 19th-century satire. . . . [This new translation] is an argument for the book’s Swiftian wit and its relevance to Russia and the United States today.” —The New York Times A major classic in Russia since its publication, Foolsburg is the farcical chronicle of a fictional town and its hapless inhabitants as they passively endure the violence and lunacy of their rulers. The succession of brutal mayors of the town include such surreal extremes as a man with a music box instead of a brain and one so tall that he snaps in half during a windstorm. Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin marries biting satire reminiscent of Jonathan Swift with the fantastical absurdity of Nikolai Gogol, imbued throughout with his own brand of playful wordplay. The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have produced the first translation of this work into English that successfully captures its zany humor and enduring relevance.

How far would you go to escape the real world? The underground man had always felt like an outsider. He doesn't want to be like other people, working in the 'ant-hill' of society. So he decides to withdraw from the world, scrawling a series of darkly sarcastic notes about the torment he is suffering. Angry and alienated, his only comfort is the humiliation of others. Is he going mad? Or is it the world around him that's insane?