/lit/ - Literature

I just started reading this. What should I expect?

He is in a desperate search of a path to become a genius. To be above everyone. To have his own morals, built by himself alone. To detach from society. And despite all these attempts, to have a foot behind this decision, and to still be mediocre. Mundane.

This is me, I guess.

What are some other good books about human disconnect and isolation?
Pic related

My question pertains to books that have been translated to English from their original language.

I'm a relatively new reader(as in I've never read a book not originally written in English), and I was wondering how reading translations works.
Pic related is the book I'm interested in reading next, but I looked on wikipedia and there's ~15 people who have translated it. How are you supposed to know which one's the best?
When you do finally read it, is the prose, the language even Dostoyevskys anymore? Are you only allowed to compliment Dostoyevsky on the plot, theme, and characters and the translator on the rest?


Anyway my question boils down to: Who is the best Dostoyevsky translator?

For real, what is the best translation of pic related?

In b4 "hurr translation"

Yeah, I'm a pleb who isn't going to learn Russian, but I still want to have the best experience in English possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T46fc4Bh2Q
>This entire episode

Is Garnett's translation of Crime and Punishment decent? I got it for like $3.

Call me a pleb, but I like this a lot.

How do Dostoevsky-tards justify this shit ending?

>but suddenly it was as if something lifted him and flung him down at her feet. He wept and embraced her knees…all at once she understood everything.

200k words and his religious conversion is done in one single sentence, what garbage.

What is the best translation?

Please no P&V / Constance Garnett Recommendations

>finish a novel that has any sort of plot to it
>immediately feel crushing depression
Everytime...
Im trying to get into reading again, but years of watching television has destroyed my focus.
I really liked this book though, all of the characters going by three different names kept me on my toes, especially the parts dealing with morality(all of it).
Can anybody recommend me any other books in a similar vein, I was thinking about Notes From the Underground, I liked how miserable the main character was.

Also:
Would you consider Sonia to be an extraordinary man/ubermensch?

This randomhouse version of C&P.

Fellas, I'm looking at purchasing Crime and Punishment, and I need your input on translations. I've read in a few places that Magarshack is the best, followed my McDuff. Which is your preference?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98tEXRIYn5c

ITT: Critically acclaimed books you disliked

I really thought this book would be about something clever or interesting. Instead it's just about a dude with autism who kills an old lady no one gives a fuck about, drunken Russian hobos, and boring overly written conversations that are the literal definition of exposition.

Way to let me down, /lit/

Haven't read The Idiot or Brothers K yet. As of right now, C&P is my favorite novel.