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Michael R. Katz

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Bio

Michael R. Katz was born in New York and educated at Williams College and the University of Oxford. He taught Russian language and literature at Williams College, the University of Texas at Austin, and Middlebury College, where he is the C. V. Starr Professor Emeritus of Russian and East European Studies. He is the author of two monographs—The Literary Ballad in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature and Dreams and the Unconscious in Nineteenth-Century Russian Fiction—and the translator of over fifteen Russian novels into English, including works  by  Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy. He lives in Cornwall, Vermont.

Michael R. Katz Books

My Literary and Moral Meanderings book cover

My Literary and Moral Meanderings

Apollon Grigoryev
A Family Chronicle book cover

A Family Chronicle

Sergei Aksakov
The Brothers Karamazov: A New Translation by Michael R. Katz book cover

The Brothers Karamazov: A New Translation by Michael R. Katz

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment: A New Translation book cover

Crime and Punishment: A New Translation

Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Five book cover

The Five

Vladimir Jabotinsky
What Is to Be Done? book cover

What Is to Be Done?

Nikolai Chernyshevsky
Pioneers book cover

Pioneers

S. A. An-sky
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