{"id":252,"date":"2007-10-15T12:01:17","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T17:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weeklyrob.dreamhosters.com\/?p=252"},"modified":"2007-10-15T12:01:17","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T17:01:17","slug":"big-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Big Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hurtling through physical space to my door is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/14\/books\/review\/Pevear-t.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin\">latest translation<\/a> of Tolstoy&#8217;s War and Peace.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never read it before, and I don&#8217;t plan to start any time in the next month or two, but I&#8217;m glad to have it. It&#8217;s sort of famous. It&#8217;s 1296 pages of Russiany goodness.<\/p>\n<p>And this translation is supposed to be a good one. As <a href=\"http:\/\/weeklyrob.dreamhosters.com\/?p=117\">I&#8217;ve said before<\/a>, translation is everything. This one is supposed to be true to Tolstoy, with lots of notes explaining all the junk I wouldn&#8217;t understand without help.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in other War and Peace news, for the first time ever, there&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/War-Peace-Original-Leo-Tolstoy\/dp\/0060798874\/\">translation of Tolstoy&#8217;s first edition<\/a>, originally published in a Russian lit magazine, before he reworked it and almost doubled its size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurtling through physical space to my door is the latest translation of Tolstoy&#8217;s War and Peace. I&#8217;ve never read it before, and I don&#8217;t plan to start any time in the next month or two, but I&#8217;m glad to have it. It&#8217;s sort of famous. It&#8217;s 1296 pages of Russiany goodness. And this translation is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-languagelit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}