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Anonymous Fri Apr 8 20:43:37 2011 No.1690247 [Reply] [Original]

What is the best English translation of War and Peace?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 8 20:44:37 2011 No.1690250 Pevear and Volokhonsky

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 8 20:52:37 2011 No.1690259 >>1690250 Alright, thanks. If I want to read Doestoevsky, I should read Pevear and Volokhonsky's translations of those as well?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 8 20:59:37 2011 No.1690271 >>1690259 just do like I did and read Constance Garnett's translations. IB4 being bombed to hell for that.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 8 21:12:37 2011 No.1690296 As far as Dostoevsky goes, there really isn't too much variation between the different translations. Constance Garnett is no less acceptable than Pevear and Volokhonsky or David Magarshack.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 8 21:13:37 2011 No.1690299 /lit/ jizzes all over themselves over Pevear and Volokhonsky, but I've always preferred Magarshack. Better yet, just learn Russian.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 8 21:25:37 2011 No.1690316 >>1690299 BUT YOU'D GET EVEN LESS OF AN UNDERSTANDING AS EVEN WITH YEARS OF STUDYING IT'D BE UNLIKELY THAT YOU'D BE AT THE READING LEVEL OF THE AVERAGE RUSSIAN SPEAKER.