The power of words
Posted on October 10th, 2007 by Deborah Potter
We live in a multimedia world, surrounded by images, but words still have power. That’s what I took away from a Newsweek feature about two new English versions of Tolstoy’s “War and Peace.” The piece quotes one of the translators, Richard Pevear: Words have color, shade, tone, texture, rhythm, pacing, disposition, structure; they can quote, [...]
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