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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You can read Figes's review for yourselves. So, upon learning from a newspaper article that the publication of a Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of Tolstoy's War and Peace is imminent, it struck me that now would be a good moment for me to tackle that classic tome. €�I came running to Larissa”—Larissa Volokhonsky, Pevear's wife of thirty years and collaborator on twenty-one works of Russian-to-English translation—“and said, 'Can that be? Cunningham's introduction was written before all of thehullabaloo over the Pevear and Volokhonsky translations of War and Peace. I don't know if that's maybe my translation, (I'm reading a different translator--Pevear & Volokhonsky) or just a case of the book being longer and more ambitious. When Pevear and Volokhonsky translated it, they kept the French with the English translation as a footnote. They did a great job with Anna Karenina, and Penguin did a great job packaging it. You are, after all, comparing your ideal translation of War and Peace to abridged versions of Shakespeare. Since I formed my own notions . The English-speaking world is indebted to these two magnificent translators, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, for revealing more of its hidden riches than any who have tried to translate the book before. War and Peace (Pevear/Volokhonsky Translation). Tolstoy wrote French for some of the passages for War and Peace. From the Patriotic War against Napoléon to the era of nineteenth- century radicalism and reform, and then on to the October Revolution, the Communist terror, and the postwar period, the Pevear-Volokhonsky project now surveys a cultural expanse as broad as the Siberian frontier. I was all set to write about how excited I am at the new Pevear/Volokhonsky translation of War and Peace. I'm curious as to why the other bloggers you follow(ed) weren't pleased with the translation. War.and.Peace.Pevear.Volokhonsky.Translation..pdf. The Stieg Larsson books, the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of “War and Peace,” and Laurie Sheck's “A Monster's Notes,” to name just a few (many more from his portfolio are delightfully catalogued on his Web site).





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