Richard Pevear
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Richard Pevear is an American-born poet and translator who frequently collaborates with his wife, Larissa Volokhonsky, on translations of works mainly in Russian, but also French, Italian and Greek. The husband-and-wife team live in Paris and are said to work in a two-step process: Volokhonsky, a native of St. Petersburg, Russia, prepares a literal translation of the Russian text, and Pevear adapts the literal into polished and stylistically appropriate English. According to "The Translation Wars," an article by David Remnick in November 7th, 2005 issue of The New Yorker, Pevear and Volokhonsky are currently preparing a translation of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.
Pevear was born in Boston and earned a bachelor's degree from Allegheny College and a master's degree from the University of Virginia. As of 2006, he teaches classes at the American University of Paris.
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- The Brothers Karamazov (1990)
- Crime and Punishment (1992)
- Notes From Underground (1993)
- Demons (1994)
- The Eternal Husband and Other Stories (1997)
- The Idiot (2002)
- The Adolescent (2003)
- The Double (2005)
- The Gambler (2005)
- The Master and Margarita (1997)
- The Collected Tales (1998)
- Dead Souls (1996)
- Anna Karenina (2000)
- War and Peace (2008 estimated)
- The Complete Short Novels (2000)
- The Three Musketeers (2006)
