Reading the World 2008: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
This is the fourteenth Reading the World 2008 title we’re covering. Write-ups of the other titles can be found here. And information about the Reading the World program—a special collaboration between publishers and independent booksellers to promote literature in translation throughout the month of June—is ...
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War and Peace (again) and the Goal of Translation
I know that E.J. already wrote about James Wood’s review of War and Peace, but in reading the article last night, I had a couple of thoughts that I hope are worth sharing. In evaluating the new translation, Wood lays out the two basic translation camps: Literary translators tend to divide into what one could call ...
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Arguments about the Translation Quality of War and Peace
This post on Languagehat.com is fascinating, especially in the context of yesterday’s post on the way reviewers review translations. Over the past few weeks, there’s been an ongoing discussion of the new Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of War and Peace in the i>NY Times Reading Room. According to ...
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