Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2015

[Aadisht Khanna]

>
> That's Constance Garnett, the great populariser of Russian novels in the
> West. She's still very widely read. But can I put in a word for Pevear and
> Volokhonsky? I finally finished War and Peace this year and I can't praise
> their translation enough -- it's clearly meticulous and well
> thought-through, but awe-inspiringly crisp and lucid.
>
> Noted, thank you, but the same penny pinching that drove most of my 2015
reading to free longreads will probably also keep me on free Gutenberg
translations in 2016.