> > That's Constance Garnett, the great populariser of Russian novels in the > West. She's still very widely read. But can I put in a word for Pevear and > Volokhonsky? I finally finished War and Peace this year and I can't praise > their translation enough -- it's clearly meticulous and well > thought-through, but awe-inspiringly crisp and lucid. > > Noted, thank you, but the same penny pinching that drove most of my 2015 reading to free longreads will probably also keep me on free Gutenberg translations in 2016.
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