Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment:A Norton Critical Edition

MICHAEL R. KATZ is the C. V. Starr Professor Emeritus of Russian and East European Studies at Middlebury College. He has published translations of more than fifteen Russian novels, including Turgenevs Fathers and Children and Dostoevskys Notes from Underground.

BURNETT , THE SECRET GARDEN

CHEKHOV , SELECTED PLAYS

CHEKHOV , SELECTED STORIES

DOSTOEVSKY , THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV

DOSTOEVSKY , CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

DOSTOEVSKY , NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND

FLAUBERT , MADAME BOVARY

IBSEN , SELECTED PLAYS

MARX , THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

MAUPASSANT , SELECTED WORKS

TOLSTOY , ANNA KARENINA

TOLSTOY , SHORT FICTION

TOLSTOY , WAR AND PEACE

TURGENEV , FATHERS AND CHILDREN

WEBER , THE PROTESTANT ETHIC AND THE SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM

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A NORTON CRITICAL EDITION

Fyodor Dostoevsky

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

A NEW TRANSLATION

BACKGROUNDS AND SOURCES

CRITICISM

Translated and Edited by

MICHAEL R. KATZ

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE

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COVER: A staircase inside a house on Kaznacheiskaya Street in St. Petersburg; Dostoevsky lived on this street when writing Crime and Punishment, and much of the storys action takes place nearby. Photograph by Arkady Opochansky.

Copyright 2019 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Translation copyright 2018 by Michael R. Katz

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First Edition

The Library of Congress has cataloged the printer edition as follows:

Names: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 18211881, author. | Katz, Michael R., translator, editor.

Title: Crime and punishment : a new translation, backgrounds and sources, criticism / translated and edited by Michael R. Katz, Middlebury College.

Other titles: Prestuplenie i nakazanie. English (Katz) | Norton critical edition.

Description: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2019. | Series: Norton critical edition

Identifiers: LCCN 2018047643 | ISBN 9780393264272 (pbk.)

Classification: LCC PG3326 .P7 2019 | DDC 891.73/3dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018047643

ISBN: 978-0-393-26427-2 (pbk.)

ISBN: 978-0-393-27016-7 (ebook.)

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The original Norton Critical Edition of Crime and Punishment (1964), the Second Edition (1975), and the Third (1989), all edited by the late George Gibian, were well received by readers, teachers, and students. These Norton Critical Editions made use of the translation by Jessie Coulson, a published author, editor, and translator, whose version of the novel dates from 1953. As editor and translator of this new edition, I am most grateful to the users of the previous versions over the past fifty-four years.

Marking the 150th anniversary of the publication of Dostoevskys Crime and Punishment in 1866, this Norton Critical Edition includes a new translation of the novel based on the authoritative text published in volume 6 of the authors Complete Collected Works in Thirty Volumes [Polnoe sobranie sochinenii v tridtsati tomakh] (Leningrad, 1973); it contains an enhanced critical apparatus with an extensive, fresh selection of essays about Dostoevskys novel.

The selection of background materials includes excerpts from the authors notebooks for Crime and Punishment, new translations of letters pertaining to the novel, and a revised translation of an early variant of Part II, chapter 2.

The selection of critical articles has been expanded and broadened to include works by many younger scholars in the field, as well as some rediscovered classics in criticism. The spelling of the authors and characters names, as well as place names, varies according to the system of transliteration preferred by each critic.

The footnotes have been completely rewritten to assist the reader in identifying the authors numerous references to people, places, and theories in the text.

An annotated map of Dostoevskys St. Petersburg and a selected bibliography of sources on Dostoevsky in general, and on Crime and Punishment in particular, complete the volume.

It is hoped that these materials will render this classic text more understandable and enjoyable to a new generation of readers and will deepen the appreciation of those returning to this unforgettable novel.

MICHAEL R. KATZ

Rasklnikov, Rodin Romnovich or Romnych

(Rdya, Rdenka, Rdka)

Pulkhriya Aleksndrovnahis mother

Avdtya Romnovna (Dnya, Dnechka)his sister

Razumkhin or Vrazumkhin, Dmtry Prokfichhis friend

Alyna Ivnovnathe pawnbroker

Lizavta Ivnovnaher sister

Marmeldov, Semyn Zakhrovich or Zakhrychformer civil servant

Katerna Ivnovnahis wife

Sfiya Semynovna (Snya, Snechka)his daughter

Three other children: Polna (Plya, Plenka, Plechka)

Lnya (Lda, Ldochka)

Klya (Klka)

Svidrigylov, Arkdy Ivnovichlandlord; Dunyas former employer

Mrfa Petrvnahis wife

Lzhin, Ptr PetrvichDunyas fianc

Lebezytnikov, Andry Semynovich or SemynychLzhins friend

Porfry Petrvichexamining magistrate; distant relative of Razumikhins

Lippevkhsel, Amliya IvnovnaMarmeladovs landlady

Zosmova doctor

Zamtov, Aleksndr Grigrevichchief police clerk

Ily Petrvichnicknamed Prokh (gunpowder)police lieutenant

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Accents are provided to aid the reader in pronunciation; they are not part of written Russian.

Raskolnikov	raskl = schism; rasklnik = schismatic or dissenter
Razumikhin	rzum = reason, good sense
Marmeladov	marmeld = jam, jelly
Sofiya	wisdom (Greek)
Luzhin	lzha = puddle, pool
Lebezyatnikov	lebezt = to fawn, cringe

The Text of
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

Part One

I

I n the beginning of July, during an extremely hot spell, toward evening, a young man left his tiny room, which he sublet from some tenants who lived in Stolyarnyi Lane, stepped out onto the street, and slowly, as if indecisively, set off towards the Kokushkin Bridge.