Who is the best translator of Tolstoy? I read Garnetts translation of Anna Karenina, I enjoyed it. I've heard bad things about the P&V translations in regard to Tolsoy though.

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Anonymous Sun Jun 14 20:50:49 2015 No.6689424 [Reply] [Original]

Who is the best translator of Tolstoy? I read Garnetts translation of Anna Karenina, I enjoyed it.
I've heard bad things about the P&V translations in regard to Tolsoy though.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 14 21:01:13 2015 No.6689459 http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0307700755/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1434330057&sr=8-1&keywords=war+and+peace+everyman+classics here you go

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 14 21:09:42 2015 No.6689495 >>6689424 Tolstoy himself endorsed the Maude translations.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 14 21:12:09 2015 No.6689508 >>6689495 Tolstoy believed that "Better translators, both for knowledge of the two languages and for penetration into the very meaning of the matter translated, could not be invented."

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