Best English translation?

[MysticWind]

I am attempting to build a personal classics library with modern editions with the best translations. It's a bit cheesy, but I'm trying to do something like this poster (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45929), buying from "classics editions", so long as the translations and notes are good. I already own an old copy of the Signet Classics of this novel, and I'm not sure if it's good or not.

[Calidore]

Amazon's comments are a great place to find detailed comparisons of translations.

http://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Karamazov-Fyodor-Dostoevsky/product-reviews/0374528373/ref=sr_1_2_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

[fb0252]

what's best. maybe someone that's read them all could answer. I am reading this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Karamazov-Second-Critical-Editions/dp/0393926338/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313427828&sr=1-7

Dostoevsky can write a little and it it seems as always Norton has got it right. Little to complain of regards translation. Rework, I believe of the earlier Constance Garnett translation.

[Intuition]

The Pevear/Volokhonsky is most likely the greater translation. They have won countless awards for translating Russian Literature, so you cannot go wrong.

[fb0252]

that's the one H. Bloom recommends in his book "Genius".