#david magarshack

[feuillesmortes]

“I love, I can only love the earth I’ve left behind, stained with my blood when, ungrateful wretch that I am, I extinguished my life by shooting myself through the heart [...] On our earth we can truly love only with suffering and through suffering! We know not how to love otherwise. We know no other love. I want suffering in order to love. I want and thirst this very minute to kiss, with tears streaming down my cheeks, the one and only earth I have left behind.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man”; The Best Short Stories of Dostoevsky. Translation by David Magarshack  

[hermitthrush]

"It’s not that at all”, the lame teacher at last intervened, speaking, as was his wont, with rather an ironic smile, so that it was difficult to say whether he was serious or joking. “This, ladies and gentlemen, isn’t the point at issue at all. Mr. Shigalyov is too much devoted to his task and, besides, he is too modest. I know his book. He proposes as a final solution of the problem to divide humanity into two unequal parts. One-tenth is to be granted absolute freedom and unrestricted powers over the remaining nine-tenths. Those must give up their individuality and be turned into something like a herd, and by their boundless obedience will by a series of regenerations attain a state of primeval innocence, something like the original paradise. They will have to work, however. The measures the author proposes for depriving the nine-tenths of humanity of their true will and their transformation into a herd by means of the re-education of whole generations, are very remarkable. They are based on the facts of nature and very logical."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils (1871) | Magarshack translations, Part II, “At Virginsky’s” 7.2. A meeting of would-be revolutionaries and conspirators.

[hermitthrush]

At present all your actions must be animated by one aim - namely, to bring everything down with a crash: the State as well as its moral standards. We alone will be left, we who have prepared ourselves beforehand to take over the government: the intelligent we shall bring over to our side, and the fools we shall use to carry us on their shoulders. You must not be shy of that. We must re-educate a generation to make it worthy of freedom. We shall have many thousands of Shatovs to deal with.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils (1871) | Magarshack translation, Part III, “A Very Busy Night” 6.1. After the murder of Shatov, Peter acknowledges the violence an intellectual vanguard must commit. Ends and means.

[alexesguerra]

Lady with Lapdog and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) Book Condition: USED/RARE Collectible in Good Condition. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov(1860-1904) may be likened to his contemporaries, the "pointilliste" painters. Piece by piece, episode by episode, character by character, he constructs in prose a survey of the human condition. as David Magarshack writes in his introduction, on reading these stories 'one gets the impression of holding life itself, like a fluttering bird, in one's cupped hands'. ISBN: 0140441433 EAN: 9780140441437 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub Date: November 30, 1964 Contributor(s): Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich (Author), Magarshack, David (Translator)

[frimleyblogger]

Big Ben Strikes Eleven

My thoughts on Big Ben Strikes Eleven by #DavidMagarshack reissued by @BL_Publishing #CrimeFiction #BookReview

A review of Big Ben Strikes Eleven by David Magarshack – 240127 Magarshack was better known as a translator, especially of Russian novels and in particular Dostoevsky, but turned his hand in the 1930s to writing detective fiction. Big Ben Strikes Eleven, which was originally published in 1934 and has now recently been reissued as part of the British Library Crime Classics series, was the first…

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[kaggsy59]

"A little too simple." #ReadIndies #BLCC @BL_Publishing

One of the presses I’m always happy to welcome onto the Ramblings is British Library Pubishing; as is fairly obvious, I love their Crime Classics and Women Writers series, and they’re pretty much always enjoyable and diverting . The Crime Classics in particular are my go-to when I need a comfort read; but I was extra excited about the release of the title I want to share with you today! It’s…

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[garadinervi]

Nikolaj Gogol', (1842), The Overcoat, in The Overcoat, and Other Tales of Good and Evil, Translated with an Introduction by David Magarshack (1957), Robert Bentley, Inc., Cambridge, MA, 1979, pp. 264-267

[garadinervi]

Nikolaj Gogol', (1842), The Overcoat, in The Overcoat, and Other Tales of Good and Evil, Translated with an Introduction by David Magarshack (1957), Robert Bentley, Inc., Cambridge, MA, 1979, pp. 233-240