Caught In Translation →
The Wall Street Journal (!) interviews translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. I read their wonderful edition of Chekhov’s Stories this fall; nice to read about their method:
Ms. Volokhonsky provides the first translation of each work, with running commentary on the author’s style; her husband works from that draft to render his own version. They then confer and work on that text together.
They live in Paris. Mmmm.
