The Task of the Translators

Curiosities
November 18, 2009 | 2

Pevear and Volokhonsky (first names no longer needed, really…like Madonna or Cher) rap with The Wall Street Journal about their luminous (dare we say definitive?) new translation of Tolstoy‘s The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories.

is the author of City on Fire and A Field Guide to the North American Family. In 2017, he was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists.

● ●
● ●
● ●
● ●
● ●
● ●
● ●
● ●
● ●
● ●