The Adolescent (65 page)
ABOUT THE TRANSLATORS
RICHARD PEVEAR has published translations of Alain, Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Savinio, Pavel Florensky, and Henri Volohonsky, as well as two books of poetry. He has received fellowships or grants for translation from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the French Ministry of Culture.
LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY was born in Leningrad. She has translated works by the prominent Orthodox theologians Alexander Schmemann and John Meyendorff into Russian.
Together, Pevear and Volokhonsky have translated
Dead Souls
and
The Collected Tales
by Nikolai Gogol,
The Brothers Karamazov
,
Crime and Punishment
,
Notes from Underground
,
Demons
,
The Idiot
, and
The Adolescent
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and
Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy. They were awarded the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for their version of
The Brothers Karamazov
, and more recently
Demons
was one of three nominees for the same prize. They are married and live in France.
Copyright © 2003 by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
This translation has been made from the Russian text of the Soviet Academy of
Sciences edition, volume 13 (Leningrad, 1975).
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of Random House, Inc.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821–1881.
[Podrostok. English]
The adolescent / Fyodor Dostoyevsky; translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear
and Larissa Volokhonsky; with an introduction by Richard Pevear.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
I. Pevear, Richard, 1943–. II. Volokhonsky, Larissa. III. Title.
PG3326.P5 2003
891.73’3—dc21
2003044885
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