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"Herzen's novel played a significant part in the intellectual ferment of the 1840s. It is an important book in social and moral terms, and wonderfully expressive of Herzen's personality."—Isaiah Berlin Alexander Herzen was one of the major figures in...



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"Herzen's only novel is as much a social document as a fiction, since the many characters personify the major issues and types of the time. . . . Herzen's humorous and ironic development of plot and character suggests an answer to the title question: all are to blame for the injustice and aimlessness of Russian life."—Library Journal
"This edition of Who Is to Blame? demonstrates genuine involvement in the translator's craft by duplicating Herzen's barbed style and preserving the natural strengths of his prose."—Slavic Review
"The translation is excellent. . . . Katz catches the epigrammatic wit of the original—quite an accomplishment."—The New Republic
"Herzen was one of the most lucid, realistic, and gifted thinkers of his age and a founder of Russian socialism. . . . Who Is to Blame? remains of value for its acute social insights and Michael Katz has rendered it fluently into English."—Times Higher Education Supplement

Who Is to Blame A Novel in Two Parts

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    A Paperback / softback by Alexander Herzen, Michael R. Katz

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      Publisher Cornell University Press
      Published 29 October 1984
      ISBN-13 9780801492860
      978-0801492860
      ISBN-10 0801492866
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      "Herzen's novel played a significant part in the intellectual ferment of the 1840s. It is an important book in social and moral terms, and wonderfully expressive of Herzen's personality."—Isaiah Berlin Alexander Herzen was one of the major figures in...



      Trade Review
      "Herzen's only novel is as much a social document as a fiction, since the many characters personify the major issues and types of the time. . . . Herzen's humorous and ironic development of plot and character suggests an answer to the title question: all are to blame for the injustice and aimlessness of Russian life."—Library Journal
      "This edition of Who Is to Blame? demonstrates genuine involvement in the translator's craft by duplicating Herzen's barbed style and preserving the natural strengths of his prose."—Slavic Review
      "The translation is excellent. . . . Katz catches the epigrammatic wit of the original—quite an accomplishment."—The New Republic
      "Herzen was one of the most lucid, realistic, and gifted thinkers of his age and a founder of Russian socialism. . . . Who Is to Blame? remains of value for its acute social insights and Michael Katz has rendered it fluently into English."—Times Higher Education Supplement

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