Amazing book. I recommend it a lot.
An example from one of the first few pages:
"There happened to him at that instant what does happen to people when they are unexpectedly caught in something very disgraceful. He did not succeed in adapting his face to the position in which he was placed towards his wife by the discovery of his fault."
But I read that Tolstoy participated in the french translation, since he spoke french fluently.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/books/review/new-translat...
The author seems to like the translation by Pevear and Volokhonsky, published in 2000.
People get really worked up about translations:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/11/07/the-translatio...
On the one hand, it makes reading such books feel like an arduous undertaking. It took me about a year and a half to finish Anna Karenina, and I just gave up on The Brothers Karamazov.
On the other hand, using two dozen words when five could suffice has the effect of drawing out each moment of the story, giving it a texture and flavor that would not otherwise be possible.
"At that moment there had happened to him what happens to most people when unexpectedly caught in some shameful act: he had not had time to assume an expression suitable to the position in which he stood toward his wife now that his guilt was discovered."