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Contents • • • • • • • • • Richard Pevear [ ] Richard Pevear was born in on 21 April 1943. Pevear earned a B.A. Degree from in 1964, and a M.A.
Degree from the in 1965. He has taught at the,,,, and the. In 1998, he joined the faculty of the (AUP), where he taught courses in Russian literature and translation. In 2007, he was named Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at AUP, and in 2009 he became Distinguished Professor Emeritus.
Besides translating Russian classics, Pevear also translated from the French (Alexandre Dumas, Yves Bonnefoy, Jean Starobinsky), Italian (Alberto Savinio), Spanish, and Greek (Aias, by Sophokles, in collaboration with Herb Golder). He is also the author of two books of poems (The Night Talk, and Exchanges). Pevear is mostly known for his work in collaboration with Larissa Volokhonsky on translation of Russian classics. Larissa Volokhonsky [ ] Larissa Volokhonsky was born into a Jewish family in, now, on 1 October 1945. After graduating from with a degree in mathematical linguistics, she worked in the (Vladivostok) and travelled extensively in Sakhalin Island and Kamchatka (1968-1973).
Volokhonsky emigrated to Israel in 1973, where she lived for two years. Having moved to the United States in 1975, she studied at (1977-1979) and at (1979-1981), where her professors were the Orthodox theologians and. She completed her studies of theology with the diploma of Master of Divinity from Yale. She began collaboration with her husband Richard Pevear in 1985. Larissa Volokhonsky translated from English into Russian 'For the Life of the World' by (RBR,Inc, 1982) and 'Introduction to Patristic Theology' by (RBR,Inc, 1981) Both translations are still in print in Russia.
Together with Richard Pevear she translated into English some poetry and prose by her brother, (published in: Modern Poetry in Translation, New series. Vol 10, Winter 196, Grand Street,Spring 1989, ed. Together with she translated several poems by (Hudson Review, Vol. 61, Issue 4, Winter 2009). Volokhonsky is mostly known for her work in collaboration with Richard Pevear on translation of Russian classics. Collaboration [ ] Volokhonsky met Pevear in the United States in 1976 and they married six years later.
The couple now live in Paris and have two trilingual children. Pevear and Volokhonsky began working together when Pevear was reading 's and Volokhonsky noticed what she regarded to be the inadequacy of the translation. As a result, the couple collaborated on their own version, producing three sample chapters which they sent to publishers.
They were turned down by and but received encouragement from a number of Slavic scholars and were in the end accepted by, a small publishing house in who paid them a $6,000 advance. It went on to win a. Their translation of won another PEN/BOMC Translation Prize. Chose this translation of Anna Karenina as a selection for her 'Oprah's Book Club' on her television program, which led to a major increase in sales of this translation and greatly increased recognition for Pevear and Volokhonsky.
Their translation of Dostoevsky's won the first Efim Etkind Translation Prize awarded by the European University of St. The husband-and-wife team works in a two-step process: Volokhonsky prepares her English version of the original text, trying to follow Russian syntax and stylistic peculiarities as closely as possible, and Pevear turns this version into polished and stylistically appropriate English.
Pevear has variously described their working process as follows: 'Larissa goes over it, raising questions. And then we go over it again. I produce another version, which she reads against the original. We go over it one more time, and then we read it twice more in proof.' 'We work separately at first.
Larissa produces a complete draft, following the original as closely as possible, with many marginal comments and observations. From that, plus the original Russian, I make my own complete draft. Then we work closely together to arrive at a third draft, on which we make our 'final' revisions.' Volokhonsky and Pevear were interviewed about the art of translation for, the long running (CBC) radio documentary. It was a 3-part program called 'In Other Words' and involved discussions with many leading translators.
The program was podcast in April 2007. Their translation of Leo Tolstoy's was published on 16 October 2007. It was the subject of a month-long discussion in the 'Reading Room' site of the N.Y Times Book Review. On October 18, 2007 they appeared in New York Public Library in conversation with Keith Gessen: celebrating the translation of 'War and Peace' Their 2010 translation of 's met with adverse criticism from Pasternak's niece,, in a book review for, but earned praise for 'powerful fidelity' from Angela Livingstone in the Times Literary Supplement. Their translation of 's book The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II was published in 2017. Reception [ ] Universal acceptance of their translation process has not been met by other translators, either in Russia or outside of Russia.
Wrote in that the translations 'take glorious works and reduce them to awkward and unsightly muddles.' Bibliography [ ] Credited to Pevear and Volokhonsky [ ] • (1990) • (1992) • (1993) • (1994) • and Other Stories (1997) • (2002) • (2003) • (2005) • (2005) • (2015) • (1997) • The Collected Tales (1998) • (1996) • ' With (2014) • The Enchanted Wanderer: and Other Stories (2013) • (2010) • Novels, Tales, Journeys: The Complete Prose of Alexander Pushkin (2016) • (1996) • (2000) • (2007) • The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories (2009) • (2012) • Stories of Anton Chekhov (2000) - 30 short stories in total. • The Complete Short Novels (2000) • ' (2015) With • A Month in the Country (2012) With • Essential Writings (2002) Credited to Pevear [ ] Pevear also translated ' book (French: Les Trois Mousquetaires), commenting in the introduction that most modern translations available today are 'textbook examples of bad translation practices' which 'give their readers an extremely distorted notion of Dumas' writing.' • Trachtenberg, Jeffrey A.,, November 17, 2009. Retrieved 2011-02-28. • Abramovich, Alex., article, July 31, 2004, reproduced in.
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The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-09-10. • Richard Pevear Larissa Volokhonsky conversation Keith Gessen • Slater, Ann Pasternak (2010-11-06).. The Guardian. Retrieved 2011-07-09.
• Livingstone, Angela, () Meaning Every Word of It. • The Sweet Smell of Success? Russian Classics in the Translation of R. Pevear and L. Volokhonsky M.Berdy, V.Lanchikov • Morson, Gary Saul. July 1, 2010. Retrieved on July 19, 2015.
• Dumas, Alexandre The Three Musketeers, Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, 'A Note on the Translation', page xxi External links [ ] • Pevear at American University of Paris (Archive) • • • at Authorities, with 49 catalogue records • at Authorities, with 37 catalogue records • Hunnewell, Susannah (Summer 2015).. • John Biguenet, 'Better a Live Sparrow than a Stuffed Owl', a conversation with Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, Tin House N°63, Spring 2015.