Tolstoy

[Jessica Natale]

Can anyone help this person? Thanks!
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Subj:    Tolstoy?
Date:   12/1/98 12:12:55 PM Eastern Standard Time
From:   boettcg at ssu.southwest.msus.edu (Greg Boettcher)
To:     na609 at aol.com

Hello, was looking for someone to answer my question about Tolstoy when I
found your page on Ivan Ilych on the web.  So I'll ask you.

When I read The Brothers Karamazov a couple of years ago, I enjoyed it a
lot.  Much of my enjoyment was due to the fact that I was reading the
Bantam edition, which has a great translation by Andrew H. MacAndrew.  Now
I'm thinking about reading the real Goliath of Russian literature, War and
Peace, and the thought of going through that many pages' worth of a bad
translation does not appeal to me.  So--I was wondering if you had any
advice on which translation to read.  If you don't, perhaps you could refer
me to someone who does.

I also have a slight connection with Slavic languages, since I was an
exchange student in Poland a couple of years ago.  But my Polish is less
than fluent.  The Poles also have some good writers, like the science
fiction writer Stanislaw Lem and the weird writer Witold Gombrowicz.

Thanks for listening.  I hope I'll hear from you soon.