tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19191002.post3690016770433574314..comments2023-09-21T08:53:42.554+01:00Comments on blethers: War and Peace and the new translationChristine McIntoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14198224025775398453noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19191002.post-6322551620298539262013-11-21T18:55:49.765+00:002013-11-21T18:55:49.765+00:00"How can anyone - except, perhaps, an America..."How can anyone - except, perhaps, an American..."<br /><br />Delicious disdain.Kelvin Holdsworthhttp://www.thurible.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19191002.post-40693416849137954662013-11-10T00:14:12.301+00:002013-11-10T00:14:12.301+00:00I'm sorry your comments have taken so long to ...I'm sorry your comments have taken so long to appear - Blogger dumped them in Spam without notifying me. Christine McIntoshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14198224025775398453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19191002.post-46083240609259717182013-11-05T09:26:14.400+00:002013-11-05T09:26:14.400+00:00What a pity about that translation! I read it abou...What a pity about that translation! I read it about ten years ago in the old Penguin Classics edition by Rosemary Edmonds and couldn't put it down.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16053733282569712967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19191002.post-21771257948270418672013-10-31T01:25:11.597+00:002013-10-31T01:25:11.597+00:00It left me cold and I've read the blasted thin...It left me cold and I've read the blasted thing three times in my life - each time thinking I must have missed something...and it doesn't sound as if the translation you tried would work the trick either.<br />How could someone who wrote Anna Karenina write this I ask myself.<br />But without the ouija board have no answer from the depths...<br /><br /><br />Helen Devrieshttp://asurfeitofpalfreys.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com