More ANNA KARENINA
Below, director Joe Wright introduces a new, six-minute clip of his film of Anna Karenina (try to get past the surprisingly stilted into). Opening in theaters on November 9th, it stars Keira Knightly and Jude Law with a screenplay by Tom Stoppard.
Get those Russian-themed book displays ready.
Official Site: FocusFeatures.com/Anna_Karenina
Vintage is releasing a tie-in edition in October. The translation is by Tolstoy’s close American friends Louise and Aylmer Maude, originally published in 1918.
| Anna Karenina (Movie Tie-in Edition) |
| Leo Tolstoy |
| Retail Price: | $12.95 |
| Paperback: | 976 pages |
| Publisher: | Vintage – (2012-10-16) |
| ISBN / EAN: | 0345803922 / 9780345803924 |
A 2004 Oprah book club pick, it is still available in that edition. Two of the beneficiaries of that pick were the husband-and-wife translators, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, who, according to a story in the New York Times, had never heard of Oprah or her club when they got the news that their translation was getting a new print run of 800,000 copies.
In reviewing this translation in the New Yorker, James Wood said the couple are “at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English, and their superb rendering allows us, as perhaps never before, to grasp the palpability of Tolstoy’s ‘characters, acts, situations.'”
New Yorker editor David Remnick explored translations of Russian classics in depth in “The Translation Wars: How the race to translate Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky continues to spark feuds, end friendships, and create small fortunes.”
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