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

War and Peace (Pevear/Volokhonsky Translation)



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Page: 1296
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781400079988
Format: pdf


Not that any translation really could. A battlefield that starts out crisply beautiful, a golden autumn scene, and gradually transforms into a muddy hell. Zhivago is not a novel in the usual sense. There are two big issues with this translation, depending on where you're sitting. This new version by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky — who most recently, in 2007, gave us their War and Peace— won't change that. War and Peace (Война и мир). Elaine makes a misguided attempt to ingratiate herself with a famous Russian writer (hilariously named Testikov) by telling him what Jerry had jokingly told her earlier: that the original title of War and Peace was War, What Is It Good For? What War and Peace is, I suppose, it the biggest and baddest attempt at experimental/historical fiction ever attempted. Things don't turn out well for her after that. Two years ago I read a fresh translation by the couple Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky of Leo Tolstoy's epic War and Peace. Eventually found the updated Pevear & Volokhonsky translation which made all the difference. I was all set to write about how excited I am at the new Pevear/Volokhonsky translation of War and Peace. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, who have also translated War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are behind this new version of Boris Pasternak's breathtakingly wonderful novel. I read the Pevear/Volokhonsky translation, and I was absolutely blown away. It was translated by Max Hayward and Manya Harari, and lest I sound like I'm spitting in the eye of Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, I loved it. As james wood puts it in his admiring new yorker review of richard pevear and larissa volokhonsky's translation of war and peace,. They did a great job with Anna Karenina, and Penguin did a great job packaging it.





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