Languagehat on Tolstoy

By E.J. Van Lanen | August 4th, 2008 | Articles | 0 Comment

Languagehat on Tolstoy’s use of repetition, and the translation of War and Peace: One of the things that surprised me when I started reading War and Peace in Russian was that it wasn’t particularly well written in the “fine writing,” Nabokovian sense. The sentences were baggy, the words were not ...