NYT Sunday Book Review + reading room...

[Michael Denner]

On top of the Newsweek story from last week...

A note on translating _War & Peace_ by Richard Pevear in today's NYT Sunday Book Review:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/books/review/Pevear-t.html?ei=5070&en=cc8f988a5de3431d&ex=1193025600&emc=eta1&pagewanted=all

And the first posts in a monthlong discussion of "War and Peace" on the Times' "Reading Room" blog:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/books/review/Pevear-t.html?ei=5070&en=cc8f988a5de3431d&ex=1193025600&emc=eta1&pagewanted=all

The Pevear/Volokhonsky new translation of W&P is due out next week. That translation is fast on the heels of the September publication of (the absurdly titled)  _War & Peace: The Original Version_:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/War-Peace-Original-L-N-Tolstoy/dp/0007148380

(Only 900 pages!)

And Tony Briggs' new translation from last summer:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/War-Peace-Penguin-Red-Classics/dp/0141025115/ref=sr_1_1/202-2632989-
9845424?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192390245&sr=1-1

Briggs' version was well reviewed by Hugh McLean in the 2006 Tolstoy Studies Journal. 

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