Article. (For a detailed critique of their work, Gary Saul Morson's article, "The Pevearsion of Russian Literature," [Commentary, July 2010] is well worth searching out. The Pevearsion of Russian Literature. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Russian: Лариса Волохонская, RU) are literary translators best known for their collaborative English translations of classic Russian literature.Individually, Pevear has also translated into English works from French, Italian, and Greek. Long-time readers of LH will know my negative feelings toward the much-lauded translating duo of Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (see, for instance, here); imagine, therefore, my pleasure on being sent a link to “The Pevearsion of Russian Literature” by Gary Saul Morson, and my disappointment on learning it was only an abstract. 0 Comments Your opinion about Anna Karenina does not seem correct to me On the contrary, I take pride in the architectonics. Jul 2010 ; Gary Saul Morson. To Review of "Pevearsion" article "Architectonics" and Anna Karenina.

It's just different than reading in the original language. In an article in the July/August 2010 issue of Commentary entitled “The Pevearsion of Russian Literature,” Morson used the word “tragedy” to express his sense of the disaster that has befallen Russian literature in English translation since the P&V translations began to appear. 12/24/2012.

In an article in the July/August 2010 issue of Commentary entitled “The Pevearsion of Russian Literature,” Morson used the word “tragedy” to express his sense of the disaster that has befallen Russian literature in English translation since the P&V translations began to appear. As was clear from his lecture, Dr. Morson is a long-time Garnett devotee, and he expounds upon his preference in his Commentary essay “The Pevearsion of Russian Literature.” At the same time, Pevear and Volokhonsky’s work earned a PEN Translation Prize along with rapturous reviews from the New York Times and others. The Russian economy was overwhelmingly agriculture and rural, with industrialization only arriving at the very end of the century in and around some of the large cities of western Russia. The vaults are done in such a way that one cannot even notice the place where they are linked. It's fair, but devastating.) Russia was, in a sense, stuck in a historical impasse.

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky explained. That impasse would only end with outright revolution, first in 1905 and again in 1917. Their technique—she giving a literal version, then her husband, who has never visited Russia and says he has no wish to, supplies the polish—simply isn’t sophisticated enough. Literature in Translation.