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Mansfield was my first Austen in the 90s. I discussed Austen with a friend in the 2010s and i told him i read an Austen but couldn't recall name of book. I recalled they did some acting in it. Well i've re-read the novel and i was surprised by the ending i'd forgotten so much. I still hoped Crawford would show he was loyal after all and Mary would marry Edmund. But i was reading one of the criticisms was what was so bad about the play. Crawford and Miss Bertram were openly flirting in front of her fiance, and we know how that ended. I think Mary got a tougher break being made responsible for her brother's behavior. But in reality the Crawfords deeply compromised the Bertram family. But yea of the Austen's i've read this is the darkest so far.

I was off from school(i work in schools) and wanted something to do. So i started with Demons, Pevear translation. It was a book I read for the first time in 90s the summer after my sophomore year of college and i recalled it being very significant to my thinking. Then it was called The Possessed and i think it was a Garnett translation. To my mature mine the issues in Demons were settled, but the story telling was brilliant. Next i jumped into Crime and Punishment, a book I first read in high school in AP english and apparently forgot most everything. I was struck how leniant he was treated was it 7 years only? In the idiot the guy got 15 years. I had dinner with my brother and the topic came up and goes the money lender was jewish. Well i thought about it, But yea Dostoevsky had his prejudices. I had a Katz translation of Crime, not a pevear, and it did feel a little like a cheat, like the vocab was simplified a bit. The idiot I had a pevear again. Beautiful story, but it felt a bit experimental. I heard Dostoevsky himself felt he had not really obtained all he had set out for in The Idiot. This one feels more personal, like Dostoevsky was making a character to represent more what he feels is good. I particularly felt that when the idiot went on a rant at a gathering against catholicism and for the russian church ideal.

I was off from school(i work in schools) and wanted something to do. So i started with Demons, Pevear translation. It was a book I read for the first time in 90s the summer after my sophomore year of college and i recalled it being very significant to my thinking. Then it was called The Possessed and i think it was a Garnett translation. To my mature mine the issues in Demons were settled, but the story telling was brilliant. Next i jumped into Crime and Punishment, a book I first read in high school in AP english and apparently forgot most everything. I was struck how leniant he was treated was it 7 years only? In the idiot the guy got 15 years. I had dinner with my brother and the topic came up and goes well of course the money lender was jewish. Well i thought about it, But yea Dostoevsky had his prejudices. I had a Katz translation of Crime, not a pevear, and it did feel a little like a cheat, like the vocab was simplified a bit. The idiot I had a pevear again. Beautiful story, but it felt a bit experimental. I heard Dostoevsky himself felt he had not really obtained all he had set out for in The Idiot. This one feels more personal, like Dostoevsky was making a character to represent more what he feels is good. I particularly felt that when the idiot went on a rant at a gathering against catholicism and for the russian church ideal.

I’ve been on a Dostoevsky kick this summer reading three of his novels in a row. Started with Notes from Underground, a Pevear translation.  Next I got Demons kindle edition translated by Pevear again for 99 cents. Now both of these I read when I was in college as well in 90s but my memory was mostly gone I found as I read the stories, and it was fresh. Well enthused by Demons I’m thinking I’ve got extra time this summer, why not tackle Crime and Punishment which originally was my first Dostoevsky in AP English in the last century. But cheap Pavear kindle translations could not be dug up even searching deep into the search list for all the alternative additions. So I tried a Michael Katz translation, Google had had some good things to say about him.  Now I do think he makes Dostoevsky sound a little different perhaps. It’s more modern English, but I compared several times with the Garnett and felt he was still faithful. Crime was riveting,  Moves faster than Demons to be honest, but Demons has an interesting plot and perhaps Dostoevsky’s most interesting villain. 

I guess this is the final outcome of what can happen if you don't pay subs well or treat them well..

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