Tolstoy's American translator: letters to Isabel Hapgood, 1888-1903. (Russian author Leo Tolstoy)

From: TriQuarterly | Date: March 22, 1998| Author: Whittaker, Robert | Copyright information

Leo Tolstoy enjoyed a personal relationship with his American translator Isabel Hapgood, before a conflict between their philosophical and ethical principles prompted Hapgood to stop translating and interpreting his works for fellow Americans. The two shared an easy relationship until Tolstoy exhibited his leanings toward philosophy, essays, and didactic and moralistic writings after 1878. Hapgood had wanted for Tolstoy to write more fiction and not dwell on Christian anarchism and moral abso...

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