When I first visited wotmania, I was 25. I turn 37 in less than five months 
Larry Send a noteboard - 21/02/2011 06:40:07 PM
Larry Send a noteboard - 21/02/2011 06:40:07 PM
I, too, read the Maude translation. I remember being struck by how easy it was to read (I had seen it as a daunting book to approach because it was one of those that American television and film tended to use as a signal of intelligence -- ie. the super-intelligent person would be reading it). I also remember thinking that Tolstoy could have benefited from a stricter editor.
But on the whole I really liked it.
But on the whole I really liked it.
This translation and the Signet Classics translation I read in grad school are both readable in the sense that the grand sweep of the events is evident. I think the issue is that too often people associate difficulty with a big book. Must explain why some think Atlas Shrugged is a profound tale
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
- 21/02/2011 01:05:49 AM
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Some thoughts on the book
- 21/02/2011 02:49:33 AM
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Translation was by Louise and Aylmer Maude (1920s)
- 21/02/2011 03:11:25 AM
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Without knowing anything about the translation, it already sounds terrible.
- 21/02/2011 05:06:53 AM
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It's readable, provided you know so little of Russia and its court circles of the time
- 21/02/2011 05:34:56 AM
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Re: It's readable, provided you know so little of Russia and its court circles of the time
- 27/02/2011 01:04:50 AM
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I read it when I was 19 (Jesus Christ, that is almost 10 years ago)
- 21/02/2011 01:48:16 PM
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When I first visited wotmania, I was 25. I turn 37 in less than five months
- 21/02/2011 06:40:07 PM
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- 21/02/2011 06:40:07 PM
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Hey ya know what I read the most unbelievable thing about Tolstoy the other day ...
- 22/02/2011 12:46:37 AM
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