War and Peace
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NPR reports on the two very different translations of Tolstoy's War and Peace that have just been released. One is the faithful Richard Pevear-Larissa Volokhonsky translation, which keeps the plentiful French in its original form (translated in footnotes); the other is Andrew Bromfield's 400-page shorter translation of Tolstoy's first completed draft (with a different ending!). I loved P&V's translation of Dostoevsky's Demons, and only have interest in Tolstoy's final draft at the moment, so I know which one I'll be picking up.
(0) # 11/12/2007

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