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War and Peace (Pevear/Volokhonsky Translation) Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

I have read Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and The Idiot, each translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Tin Drum by Günter Grass, translated from the German by Breon Mitchell (here); and James Woods' review of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (here). It is also hard to avoid hyperbole in its praise. War and Peace Translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky It's hard to overstate the case for this translation as being essential. Pevear/Volokhonsky's War and Peace transformed the book, which I had read several times before in the Maude translation. Very light too, after you get past the blizzard of names (this will help though): but read the Maude or Pevear-Volokhonsky translations — others (especially the new Penguin one) are dreadful. For the first time, I understood Andre -- he'd seemed like such a prig before. James Wood reviews the new translation of War and Peace in The New Yorker. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's translation gives us new access to the spirit and order of the book. Randomhouse has the forthcoming Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky translation of War and Peace slated for November 2007. It's available as a three-volume set, and will set you back US$40.00. This enormous, 4-pound, 1,273-page Vintage Classics edition of War and Peace tipped the helmet. War and Peace in helmet Here is the traditional Frisbee summer picture of a book in a bicycle helmet. War and Peace especially is a transformation and revelation. I am about 1000 or so pages into the recent, Pevear-Volokhonsky translation of War and Peace. The Stieg Larsson books, the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of “War and Peace,” and Laurie Sheck's “A Monster's Notes,” to name just a few (many more from his portfolio are delightfully catalogued on his Web site). I hope to find the time to read the recent translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. When I first saw Bondarchuk's "War and Peace," in 1968, in New York, it was presented in two parts and ran six hours.