Russian-translation-filter: Please help me understand the linguistic nuances in Tolstoy's famous quote, "There was something terribly lacking between what I felt and what I could do." (here in English) How accurate is this translation in your view? What is missing from it? What if anything does it add which is not there in Russian? [more inside]
posted by rudster on Dec 19, 2007 - 12 answers

Can anyone recommend an English translation of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina? [more inside]
posted by yeti on Jul 18, 2006 - 18 answers

In "What Metaphors Mean" Donald Davidson refers to a critic who called Tolstoy "a great moralizing infant". Who was that critic, and in what work was Tolstoy so called?
posted by kenko on Mar 19, 2006 - 10 answers

What's the best English edition of War and Peace? [more inside]
posted by Prospero on Aug 12, 2005 - 12 answers