Slavery? origins of the word "Slav" and its relation to"slave"

[Donna Orwin]

On the subject of the two "mirs" and how Tolstoy played with them, see Ia.
Bilinkis, O tvorchestve L. N. Tolstogo: Ocherki (Leningrad, 1959), 195-279; E.
E. Zaidenshnur, `Voina i mir' L. N. Tolstogo": Sozdanie velikoi knigi (Moscow,
1966); S. Bocharov, `Voina i mir' L. N. Tolstogo" in Bocharov, Tri shedevry
russkoi klassiki (Moscow, 1971) 7-103 passim; and G. Ia. Galagan, L. N.
Tolstoi: Khudozhestvenno-eticheskie iskaniia (Leningrad, 1981) 93-99.

Jules Levin wrote:

> At 11:59 AM 9/21/00 -0500, you wrote:
> ".
> >
> >This is one of those subtleties that are lost in translation. Leo Tolstoy
> >implied all the meanings in his "Voina i mir".(War and Peace).
> >In translation only the idea of "peace" is preserved.
> >
> Perhaps, but the two meanings were spelled differently.  Mir = peace was
> unambiguous to Tolstoy and his readers.  That's why Mayakovsky could
> publish "War and the World", changing one letter.  This distinction is now
> lost in Russian, but preserved in translation.
> When we see the title "Huckleberry Finn"  do we think of the word 'fin',
> and ponder the subtleties?  I doubt it.
>
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