War and Peace (Pevear/Volokhonsky Translation). Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace (Pevear/Volokhonsky Translation)


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War and Peace (Pevear/Volokhonsky Translation) Leo Tolstoy
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Of course, for Russian lit I go straight for Pevear & Volokhonsky! And thus, she kindly answered our probing, exploitative questions. All these editions of War and Peace are really starting to pile up on my shelves. War and Peace (Pevear/Volokhonsky Translation) Leo Tolstoy Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. I'm curious as to why the other bloggers you follow(ed) weren't pleased with the translation. There are two big issues with this translation, depending on where you're sitting. What War and Peace is, I suppose, it the biggest and baddest attempt at experimental/historical fiction ever attempted. Well, that was the first time I had really seriously looked into War and Peace at all, and as I poured over the four or five different versions of the novel on the shelf, I couldn't figure out which translation was the "best. As james wood puts it in his admiring new yorker review of richard pevear and larissa volokhonsky's translation of war and peace,. Using several examples from Tolstoy's War and Peace, the author gives the reader a whole new look and appreciation into the world of a translator. I have read Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and The Idiot, each translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Currently: War and Peace, the new Pevear/Volokhonsky translation. He puts this monolingual reader to shame. She sometimes gets knocked by uncharitable who think she's "too Victorian" to really get Tolstoy; however, if you compare the Volokhonsky/Pevear translation of Anna Karenina with my girl Connie's, you'll see that the V/K's owe her a pretty big debt. What's the first thing(s) you read in the morning? War and Peace especially is a transformation and revelation.





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