Anna Karenina

by Tolstoy, Leo,, graf

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Title Statements

Full title :Anna Karenina / Leo Tolstoy ; translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz ; edited with an introduction by Gary Saul Morson.

Summary

"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 style - she 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 true evil, and more. For readers at every stage - from students first encountering Anna to literary professionals revisiting the novel - this volume will stand as the English reader's clear first choice."--Book description, Amazon.com.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Yale University Press
Place of Publication:New Haven, Connecticut
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

Notes

English translation is based on the Russian text in: L.N. Tolstoy, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii v 90 tomakh, vols. 18-19. Moscow: Khudozhestvennaia literatura, 1929-1958.

The Physical Object

Description:xxxii, 754 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780300203943, 0300203942, 9780300216820, 0300216823
oclc:ocn877851949
LC Classification:PG3366
Dewey Decimal:891.73/3

Introduction: The moral urgency of Anna Karenina / by Gary Saul Morson -- Anna Karenina.

Subjects

1533 - 1917 Adultery Adultery -- Fiction. -- Russia Anna Karenina (Tolstoy, Leo, graf) Criticism, interpretation, etc Didactic fiction Fiction FICTION -- Classics Historical fiction Karenina, Anna (Fictitious character) -… Karenina, Anna, (Fictitious character) Karénine, Anna (Personnage fictif) -- R… Manners and customs Russia Russia -- Fiction. -- Social conditions Russia -- Fiction. -- Social life and c… Russian fiction Russie -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. -- Mœ… Social conditions Tolstoy, Leo,, graf