![]() ![]() Rosamund Bartlett's introduction, a tour d'horizon of Tolstoy's life and work, is also excellent.' ![]() ![]() Wilson, Books of the Year, Times Literary Supplement It is also a very beautifully produced book.'Ī. Bartlett also offers a superb introduction - best thing ever written about the novel - and helpful notes. `Rosamund Bartlett's translation is much the best English translation which has ever appeared. Sara Wheeler, Book of the Year 2014, Observer `Any excuse to reread Anna Karenina, and I enjoyed Rosamund Bartlett's new translation, published in a handsome hardcover edition by Oxford University Press.' It is also a very beautifully produced book.' ` much the best English translation which has ever appeared. `Rosamund Bartlett's version draws on her acclaimed work as a prolific writer, translator and scholar of modern Russian literature and culture.'Ĭarol Apollonio, The Times Literary Supplement Like her acclaimed biography of Tolstoy, it is vivid, nuanced, and compelling. Precision of meaning and emotional accuracy in an English version that is highly readable and stylistically faithful. Rosamund Bartlett's translation conveys Tolstoy's It creates an intricate labyrinth of connections that is profoundly satisfying, and deeply moving. The novel takes us from high society St Petersburg to the threshing fields on Levin's estate, with unforgettable scenes at a Moscow ballroom, the skating rink, a race course, a railway station. One of the greatest novels ever written,Īnna Karenina combines penetrating psychological insight with an encyclopedic depiction of Russian life in the 1870s. Romance of Kitty and Levin, and in the character of Levin, closely based on Tolstoy himself, the search for happiness takes on a deeper philosophical significance. The love affair of Anna and Vronsky is played out alongside the developing It is a portrait of a beautiful and intelligent woman whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties - to her marriage and to the network of relationships and moral values that bind the society around her. At its simplest, Anna Karenina is a love story. it means too much to me, far more than you can understand. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |