Three musketeers in Pevear translation

[dumbledore11214]

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Three-Musketeers/Alexandre-
Dumas/e/9780670037797

Alla:

Since we mentioned his and his wife translation of War and Peace 
recently, I thought I will take a look at his translation of Three 
musketeers in the library.

As I said before I cannot say anything good or bad about War and 
peace translation, but I can certainly say things about this book, 
lots of good things actually.

Somebody mentioned to me quite recently the outdated language in 
another translation and I was like Huh?

I mean when you know book basically by heart, even if in translation, 
you do not really catch on long and yeah, sometimes boring phrasing.

Now I can see the difference when I have Pevear translation to 
compare with. It is much more exciting and fun to read, the language 
is, well, yes I guess more modernised.

It is all relative of course since I do not know French and cannot 
really judge which translation is better, but if I were to compare 
english translations that I read, well, I can definitely say that 
Pevear translation is much more fun. Cannot say which one is closer 
to original.

Alla