NYT reading room
Michael Denner
mdenner at STETSON.EDU
Sun Oct 14 19:43:51 UTC 2007
Sorry -- got the URL for the Reading Room wrong:
http://readingroom.blogs.nytimes.com/
I think the world of Kotkin (his Magnetic Mountain is an amazing example of archival research and cultural history & Armageddon Averted is the single best short history of the collapse of the Soviet Union, imho) -- but I wonder that they chose 20th-century historian to be one of the discussants of a 19th-century novel... I suppose the proof will be in the pudding-blog.
~mad
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Dr. Michael A. Denner
Editor, Tolstoy Studies Journal
Director, University Honors Program
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Subject: [SEELANGS] NYT Sunday Book Review + reading room...
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.
~mad
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Dr. Michael A. Denner
Editor, Tolstoy Studies Journal
Director, University Honors Program
Contact Information:
Russian Studies Program
Stetson University
Campus Box 8361
DeLand, FL 32720-3756
386.822.7381 (department)
386.822.7265 (direct line)
386.822.7380 (fax)
www.stetson.edu/~mdenner
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