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Anna Karenina (Pevear/Volokhonsky Translation) by Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina (Pevear/Volokhonsky Translation) Leo Tolstoy ebook
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: pdf
Page: 864
ISBN: 9780143035008

I don't really understand why this is so different from their previous translations, as Pevear and Volokhonsky's Anna Karenina is wonderful, and doesn't have these problems at all. I loved I've seen other sites do similar things with Pevear and Volokhonsky's War and Peace translation. Instead, with Richard Pevear's newest translation in hand, I wanted to reread the first chapter of the book in as many translations as I could find and see what difference it made to my enjoyment of it. They won the PEN/Book of the Month Club Prize for their translations of The Brothers Karamazov and Anna Karenina. Volokhonsky does the original literal translation, and Pevear polishes it. The must-have Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of one of the greatest Russian novels ever written, soon to be a film adapted by Tom Stoppard and starring Kiera Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Johnson, and Emily Watson. It would seem that the only translation of War and Peace that an even mildly informed reader in 2013 would choose would be that by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. After doing some quick research, I found that Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's translation was the most recognized one on the market. I've only ever read Anna Karenina (which spurred quite a bit of translation angst) and whatever short stories were assigned in AP Lit. I have been looking for a good translation of Anna Karenina to read over the Christmas holidays. (Caveat: there is one well-informed Apparently when Oprah Winfrey selected the couple's translation of Anna Karenina for her book club in 2004, they didn't know who she was; upon hearing the news, they guessed she might be a country singer. TM: Having also translated War and Peace and Anna Karenina, what have you found to be unique about how Leo Tolstoy worked in short fiction, compared to his novels?