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A pairing of Tolstoy's most religious and existential works of fiction and nonfiction from the renowned translator of Turgenev and Chekhov. In the last two days and nights of his own life, Peter Carson completed these new translations of The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession before he succumbed to cancer tumor in January 2013. Carson, the eminent English publisher, editor, and translator who, in the words of his creator Mary Beard, "had probably more effect on the literary surroundings of [England] over the past fifty years than another single person," will need to have seen the irony of translating Ilyich, Tolstoy's profound meditation on loss of life and damage, "but he pressed on regardless, evidently refusing to be sidetracked by the parallel of literature and life." In Carson's shimmering prose, both of these transcendent works are presented in their most faithful rendering in English. Unlike so many earlier translations which have tried to smooth out Tolstoy's rough sides, Carson reveals a translation that captures the verisimilitude and emotional realism of the original Russian text.

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