Janet Malcolm On Translation
She begins her latest essay thus: ‘In “Anna Karenina,” the day after the fateful ball, resolved to forget Vronsky and resume her peaceful life with her son and husband (“my life will go on in the old way, all nice and as usualâ€), Anna settles herself in her compartment in the overnight train from Moscow to St. Petersburg, and takes out an uncut English novel, probably one by Trollope judging from references to fox hunting and Parliament.’ Vivien Leigh (pictured) played Anna in
