The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text (The Schocken Kafka Library)

« Peut-être n’ai-je pas vécu comme on doit vivre? se demanda-t-il tout à coup. Mais comment cela serait-il possible puisque j’ai toujours fait ce que je croyais être mon devoir? » se répondit-il. Et aussitôt il chercha à repousser par cet argument l’énigme de la vie et de la mort, comme quelque chose d’absolument impossible.

“Why in such haste?” asked Svidrigaïlov, looking at him curiously. “Everyone has his plans,” Raskolnikov answered gloomily and impatiently.

“And you don’t allow for feelings, then?” She interrupted me, saying that I didn’t understand. I said that I understood very well. I asked her if she didn’t make any allowances, even for love. “What does that have to do with it?” she objected. “Do you think what you have is love? This poverty, this exhausting yourself, this giving up everything, th