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Title: Constance Garnett!
Review: After reading a number of the new and celebrated Russian translators, I came back to this old version of Crime and Punishment and realized what I had been missing. The newer translators may be technically more accurate. And from time to time the may seem more colloquial. But they never capture the verve and the passion that epitomizes the great Russians. This novel especially flourishes under the hand of Garnett, who got not just the language and the culture but the essential frenzy of Dostoyevsky.
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