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

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

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 1865 --Pevear and Volokhonsky translation 2007 1273 pages. As james wood puts it in his admiring new yorker review of richard pevear and larissa volokhonsky's translation of war and peace,. There are two big issues with this translation, depending on where you're sitting. Just prepared a reading schedule for and, based on a brief conversation we had, suggestions for how to proceed with online discussion of Leo Tolstoy's War & Peace, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. When Pevear and Volokhonsky translated it, they kept the French with the English translation as a footnote. 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. 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. After reading their 2007 translation of War and Peace, Orlando Figes, the eminent Russian historian, did not mince words about Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. 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. Tolstoy wrote French for some of the passages for War and Peace. I read the Pevear/Volokhonsky translation, and I was absolutely blown away. €�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? A battlefield that starts out crisply beautiful, a golden autumn scene, and gradually transforms into a muddy hell.