What is the best translation for Anna Karenina?

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Anonymous Mon Jun 26 12:29:26 2017 No.9683219 [Reply] [Original]

What is the best translation for Anna Karenina?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 26 17:00:19 2017 No.9684236 The Maude translation got Tolstoys Approval. That's the one i read and i thought it was great.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 26 17:02:14 2017 No.9684247 >>9684236 Tolstoy's English was shitty so that doesn't mean much

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 26 17:33:46 2017 No.9684355 >>9683219 I'm reading the Maude translation of War and Peace at the moment and it's very good, fwiw. I have nothing to compare it to though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 26 20:52:45 2017 No.9685093 >>9683219 I read the Signet Magarshack translation and enjoyed it considerably.

Anonymous Mon Jun 26 21:13:25 2017 No.9685164

>>9683219
I've read both P&V and Marian Schwartz' and the latter was far superior. I've glanced at Maude's at it seems ok, but it misses the stylistic component of Tolstoy that Schwarz' nails.

Schwartz' also has an excellent translation of Oblomov as well.

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