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Anna Karenina (Pevear/Volokhonsky Translation) Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

My Old Marked Copy: Anna's Decision. I learned that there are 3 major translations: constance garnett, lousie and aylmer maude, and richard pevear and larissa volokhonsky. Pevear and Volokhonsky are the masters of Russian translation (I've also read their versions of W&P and Dostoevsky's Demons and The Adolescent). And here is the more recent translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (2000): anna-karenina-pevear. For Love of Books: The Pevear / Volokhonsky Translations. Posted August 4, 2011 at 8:03 am | Permalink. I have been looking for a good translation of Anna Karenina to read over the Christmas holidays. When I began these For and, of course, the famous first line of Anna Karenina: (Joel Carmichael):. Posted by My collection of Pevear / Volokhonsky translations. Anna Karenina is on lists of the top ten novels of all time (get the new Viking translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky). In Anna Karenina (translated by Pevear and Volokhonsky) Tolstoy's use of French is apparent as a valuable part to the text. I definitely prefer Pevear/Volokhonsky to Garnett as translators of Russian works. Anna Karenina - New Translation. While previous versions have softened the robust, and sometimes shocking, quality of Tolstoy's writing, Pevear and Volokhonsky have produced a translation true to his powerful voice. The passage above is from the end of part 2 of Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Anyway, I believe that the translator's job is to make the reading experience faithful to the original, but also to always keep the rader's enjoyment in view.