Victor Derély (1840–1904Date recovered in the archives of the Derély family.) was a French man of letters and translator.
Born in Paris and a former student of the École normale supérieure, Derély was an important translator of Russian literature of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Translating relatively little, he is best known for his translations of Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons,Les Possédés (in French) Poor Folk. He also translated Aleksey Pisemsky,Les faiseurs Elias von Cyon, Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya, Ivan Sechenov and Nikolai Leskov.
Works 1876: Nouveaux morceaux choisis de poètes et de prosateurs latins, recueillis et annotés 1884: Le Crime et le Châtiment,Le Crime et le Châtiment on Gallica 1884, was the first French translation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel.
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Sources Victor Derély Jean-Claude Polet, Patrimoine littéraire européen: anthologie en langue française. Index général, Brussels: De Boeck université, 2000, p. 358 Read online
References
External links Note sur les traductions on La Bibliothèque Russe et Slave