Larissa Volokhonsky

Thinking About War and Peace

Norman MacAfee | Posted 06.13.2011

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Norman MacAfee

When I first saw Bondarchuk's "War and Peace," in 1968, in New York, it was presented in two parts and ran six hours. You went in the afternoon, broke for dinner, then came back for the rest. It was stupendous.

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Tolstoy's Stories

Richard Pevear | Posted 05.25.2011

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Richard Pevear

Tolstoy has been better served by translators than other Russian writers, but there is still the challenge of coming closer to the original, of catching more of its specific stylistic qualities than previous translations have done.

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