Without a doubt, their version will become the standard translation of the novel for years to come." Barry Scherr, Mandel Family Professor of Russian, Dartmouth CollegeĪs well as a gripping story, Doctor Zhivago is a work of meditation and a quiet challenge. The text is accompanied by useful (but not overwhelming) notes in the back that provide information about many historical and cultural references that would otherwise be obscure for those coming to the novel for the first time. Notably as well, their version includes some phrases and sentences that inexplicably were omitted by the original translators. Thanks to their sensitive rendering, those reading Doctor Zhivago in English can now get a far better sense of Pasternak's style, for they have produced an English text that conveys the nuances (along with the occasional idiosyncrasies) of Pasternak's writing. They capture Pasternak's 'voice' with great skill. "Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have once again provided an outstanding translation of a major Russian novel.
The English-speaking world is indebted to these two magnificent translators New York Review of Books Not since Shakespeare has love been so fully, vividly, scrupulously and directly communicated Isaiah Berlin, Sunday Times One of the great events in man's literary and moral history Edmund Wilsonīelongs to that small group of novels by which all others are ultimately judged Frank Kermode, Spectator The first work of genius to come out of Russia since the Revolution V.S. The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history.
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have restored the rhythms, tone, precision, and poetry of Pasternak's original, bringing this classic of world literature gloriously to life for a new generation of readers. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Yuri Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds, and in love with the tender and beautiful nurse Lara. Read this stunning new translation of Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece from Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the acclaimed translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina.īanned in the Soviet Union until 1988, Doctor Zhivago is the epic story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the most tumultuous period in its history
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