Comments on: Translating Music by Richard Pevear – Book Review

By: Marg

Marg — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:53:41 +0000

I really enjoyed the Pevear and Volokhonsky version of Anna Karenina. I am looking forward to getting their verson of War and Peace at some stage too!

By: Diane

Diane — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:53:56 +0000

Hi Eva! Sounds like you know your stuff! And how cool that you got to see Pushkin’s school and house. Just the sort of thing I like to visit when traveling. Now, that’s really getting into reading. I can tell you, next time I head for some Russian Lit I’m looking for Pevear.

Thanks for the great comment!

By: Eva

Eva — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:22:06 +0000

I’m OCD about choosing translations; I easily spend half an hour researching it, lol. Of course, for Russian lit I go straight for Pevear & Volokhonsky!

And I love Pushkin. In second year Russian, I had to memorise fifteen or twenty lines of “The Bronze Horseman,” and I still love saying them to myself. It was so neat to see the school he attended outside St. Petersburg, as well as visit the museum they made out of his house!

Ok, I’m going to stop gushing now. But this sounds like a really neat book/series.