
Anna Karenina
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Tolstoy produced many drafts of Anna Karenina. Crafting and recrafting each sentence, he was anything but casual in his use of language. His project, translator Marian Schwartz observes, "was to bend language to his will, as an instrument of his aesthetic and moral convictions." In her magnificent new translation, Schwartz embraces Tolstoy's unusual style--she is the first English language translator ever to do so. Previous translations have departed from Tolstoy's original, "correcting" supposed mistakes and infelicities. But Schwartz uses repetition where Tolstoy does, wields a judicious cliché when he does, and strips down descriptive passages as he does, re-creating his style in English with imagination and skill.
Tolstoy's romantic Anna, long-suffering Karenin, dashing Vronsky, and dozens of their family members, friends, and neighbors are among the most vivid characters in world literature. In the thought-provoking Introduction to this volume, Gary Saul Morson provides unusual insights into these characters, exploring what they reveal about Tolstoy's radical conclusions on romantic love, intellectual dishonesty, the nature of happiness, the course of true evil, and more. For readers at every stage--from students first encountering Anna to literary professionals revisiting the novel--this volume will stand as the English reader's clear first choice.
Product Details
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Publish Date | July 14, 2015 |
Pages | 792 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9780300216820 |
Dimensions | 9.0 X 6.1 X 1.7 inches | 2.3 pounds |
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Longlisted for the 2015 American Literary Translators Asssociation, National Translation Prize in Prose. --NTA "National Translation Awards" (7/18/2015 12:00:00 AM)
"The translation is the most accurate Tolstoy we have in English. Marian Schwartz has been a major force in bringing Russian literature into English for many years, but this is her masterpiece."--Michael Holquist, author of Dostoevsky and the Novel--Michael Holquist
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