Humiliated and Insulted: New Translation

Humiliated and Insulted is a powerful and original novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, published in 1861. It explores moral degradation, childhood trauma, unrequited love, and irreconcilable relationships, featuring a young struggling author, an orphaned teenager, and a depraved aristocrat. This new translation captures the verve and tumult of the original, offering a refreshingly unfamiliar glimpse of the author.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 400 pages
Publication date: 13 December 2018
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd

First published in 1861, Humiliated and Insulted plunges the reader into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma, unrequited love, and irreconcilable relationships. At the center of the story are a young struggling author, an orphaned teenager, and a depraved aristocrat, who not only foreshadows the great figures of evil in Dostoevsky's later fiction but is a powerful and original presence in his own right. This new translation captures the verve and tumult of the original, which – in concept and execution – affords a refreshingly unfamiliar glimpse of the author.

First published in 1861, Humiliated and Insulted plunges the reader into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma, unrequited love, and irreconcilable relationships. At the center of the story are a young struggling author, an orphaned teenager, and a depraved aristocrat, who not only foreshadows the great figures of evil in Dostoevsky's later fiction but is a powerful and original presence in his own right. This new translation captures the verve and tumult of the original, which – in concept and execution – affords a refreshingly unfamiliar glimpse of the author.

Weight: 374g
Dimension: 193 x 125 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781847497802