Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky on "War and Peace"

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Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky are the celebrated husband and wife team who've translated many of the great Russian writers. They've just come out with a new version of Tolstoy's "War and Peace." They tell Steve Paulson that their translation tries to capture in English exactly what Tolstoy was doing in Russian.