Fwd: New Year Reading

[Mark Kohut]

The Volkhonsky and Peaver translation was overhyped to the skies......

The dialogue during the battle scenes is.........childishly stupid....
and plain wrong in spots......


I think the Maude translation is still the best....

--- On Tue, 12/29/09, malignd at aol.com <malignd at aol.com> wrote:

> From: malignd at aol.com <malignd at aol.com>
> Subject: Fwd: New Year Reading
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Tuesday, December 29, 2009, 5:53 PM
> Meant to send this to the list.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: malignd at aol.com
> To: hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi
> Sent: Mon, Dec 28, 2009 6:36 pm
> Subject: Re: New Year Reading
> 
> 
> The translation is very good, but I found it very
> frustrating to read.  For whatever reason, all the
> French is untranslated in the body of the novel and one must
> repeatedly (if you doesn't read French) drop down and read
> the translation in footnotes.  I found it annoying and
> tedious.  A simpler solution, if they wanted to keep
> the original French available, would be to set all that was
> written by Tolstoy in French in English italics (so the
> reader would know) or some other typeface and put the
> original French in footnote. 
>  
> Constance Garnett, to contrast, put everything into
> English. 
>  
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi> 
> To: Henry Musikar <scuffling at gmail.com> 
> Cc: 'Pynchon Liste' <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
> Sent: Mon, Dec 28, 2009 4:46 pm 
> Subject: Re: New Year Reading 
>  
> My partial answer is: War and Peace. Not only because it
> is, likeGR, at once huge and intimate. Also because the
> latest translationby Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
> has been, afaik, widelyacclaimed, see e.g.http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20810(Have only read a
> Finnish translation myself, though.)HeikkiOn Sun, 27 Dec
> 2009, Henry Musikar wrote:> Hmm... what to read
> next.  Chandler (Big Sleep)?  Dickens (where does
> one> start?)  Roth's most recent (whatever that
> was)?  Something or another that> I haven't read by
> Rushdie?  Finally tackle a good (recent) translation
> of> War and Peace (which translation)? Mark Twain? 
> Candide?  Don Quixote?  Or> go back and try to
> get more out of V than I did the other two times that>
> I've read it?>> Henry Musikar> Sr. IT
> Consultant> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20/>> 
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