War and Peace (Pevear/Volokhonsky Translation) by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace (Pevear/Volokhonsky Translation) Leo Tolstoy ebook
Page: 1296
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9781400079988
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. 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. There are essentially twelve English translations (or versions) of War and Peace to date, (if you count Bromfield's so-called "Disney Version" and Komroff's radical abridgement of the Garnett translation -- see my notes below.) As I have already alluded to, abridgements of the work are on the market and I cannot generally .. I chose the Pevear/Volokhonsky by the way. War-and-peace-maude Although Brigg's translation is excellent, I am most familiar with the Maude translation. The same issue of being loyal to stylistic sound effects pervades the Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky translation of War and Peace. War and Peace (Война и мир). 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). Pevear and Volokhonsky include all the French, with pages of footnotes. Take this short sentence: Kápli kápali. Two years ago I read a fresh translation by the couple Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky of Leo Tolstoy's epic War and Peace. Translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. This quote sits atop the introduction to the new Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky translation of Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, and reflects what I have found to be most appealing about the novel - the often elegant nineteenth- century historical novel about the Russian revolution, an epic along the lines of War and Peace" or "a moving love story, or the lyrical biography of a poet, setting the sensitive individual against the grim realities of Soviet life. War and Peace Update #1 · War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. Vintage Classic, New York, 2008.