THE NOTEBOOKS FOR "CRIME AND PUNISHMENT"
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
Edited and Translated by
EDWARD WASIOLEK
These notebooks make available in English for the first time a
complete rendering of Dostoevsky's sketches, variants, opinions and
random reflections on
Crime and Punishment.
Nowhere is Dostoev–
sky's concern with craft, style, and factual accuracy more apparent
than in this record of the alternative events he worked with-the
plans, actions, and scenes that were never used. A great number
of the novelist's queries, reflections and judgments are included, as
are characterizations that differ in important points from those given
in the printed novel. Most important, the
Notebooks
provide infor–
mation that bears on critical points of interpretation.
Scholars will find material that helps establish the genesis and
development of
Crime and Punishment,
while the critic will gain
material for a richer understanding of the novel. For the general
reader these notebooks provide unique insight into the workings of
a great artist's sensibility. Particularly interesting are eight reproduc–
tions of pages from the original manuscript.
The Notebooks for «Crime and Punishment,"
which appear in
the centennial year of the novel's original publication, are the first
in a projected series. Future editions in English will include
The
Notebooks
for:
The Idiot, The Possessed,
and
The Brothers Kara-
mazov.
1966. LC: 66-23702
December
224 pages, illus., $6.95
HONEY AND WAX
Pleasures and Powers of Narrative
An Anthology assembled by
RICHARD STERN
Illustrated by
JOAN FITZGERALD
"In its selection of material it is unique in my experience. Where
else, for example, will you find such acknowledged masters of
narrative as Kipling, de Maupassant and Henry James cheek by
jowl with a Canto by Ezra Pound, a short play by W. B. Yeats,
and a song by Schubert? Professor Stern moves freely through a
dozen literatures-Chekhov, Proust, Kierkegaard, Babel, De Assis,
Danilo Dolci, Ishikawa, and more.... 'Honey and Wax' is that
rare thing, a creative anthology as broad as literature itself."-JoHN
BARKHAM,
Saturday Review.
1966. LC:
6~13889
444
pages, illus., $7.95
