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Tolstoy produced many drafts of __Anna Karenina__. Crafting and recrafting each sentence with careful intent, he was anything but casual in his use of language. His project, translator Marian Schwartz observes, was to bend language to his will, as an instrument of his aesthetic and moral convictions.” In her magnificent new translation, Schwartz embraces Tolstoy’s unusual styleshe is the first English language translator ever to do so. Previous translations have departed from Tolstoy’s original, correcting” supposed mistakes and infelicities. But Schwartz uses repetition where Tolstoy does, wields a judicious cliché when he does, and strips down descriptive passages as he does, re-creating his style in English with imagination and skill. Tolstoy’s romantic Anna, long-suffering Karenin, dashing Vronsky, and dozens of their family members, friends, and neighbors are among the most vivid characters in world literature. In the thought-provoking Introduction to this volume, Gary Saul Morson provides unusual insights into these characters, exploring what they reveal about Tolstoy’s radical conclusions on romantic love, intellectual dishonesty, the nature of happiness, the course of tr

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Author

Morson, Gary Saul; Schwartz, Marian; Tolstoy, Leo

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300216820

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Classics

Rating

4.6 / 5 (96 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14