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

War and Peace (Pevear/Volokhonsky Translation)



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War and Peace (Pevear/Volokhonsky Translation) Leo Tolstoy ebook
Page: 1296
ISBN: 9781400079988
Format: pdf
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group


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. Over the past few weeks, there's been an ongoing discussion of the new Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of War and Peace in the NY Times Reading Room. You can read Figes's review for yourselves. The War and Peace Reading Support Group begins on Monday, but we will start reading the Tolstoy this weekend. War and Peace (Pevear/Volokhonsky Translation) Leo Tolstoy Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. The first translation I read YEARS ago was Constance Garnett's from 1901, and it didn't have even a fraction of the life-force of the Pevear/Volokhonsky version. We're using the Pevear-Volokhonsky translation, but feel free to take up any of the available translations. See, here's the thing they don't tell you when they tell you that War and Peace is this great book that nobody reads: War and Peace is a great book that is entirely readable. €�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? The job of the 1 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. Today I spent a good amount of time sitting outside reading the London Review of Books, and there was an excellent review of Pevear and Volokhonsky's translation of War and Peace. You are, after all, comparing your ideal translation of War and Peace to abridged versions of Shakespeare. Since I formed my own notions . 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.





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