Nineteen ways of looking at Wang Wei
内容简介
The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty―from a transliteration to Kenneth Rexroth’s loose interpretation. As Octavio Paz writes in the afterword, “Eliot Weinberger’s commentary on the successive translations of Wang Wei’s little poem illustrates, with succinct clarity, not only the evolution of the art of translation in the modern period but at the same time the changes in poetic sensibility.”
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作者简介
Eliot Weinberger is an essayist, editor, and translator. He lives in New York City.
Octavio Paz (1914-1998) was born in Mexico City. He wrote many volumes of poetry, as well as a prolific body of remarkable works of nonfiction on subjects as varied as poetics, literary and art criticism, politics, culture, and Mexican history. He was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in 1977, the Cervantes Prize in 1981, and the Neustadt Prize in 1982. He received the German Peace Prize for his political work, and finally, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990.
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读书文摘
斯奈德（#19）曾想象苔藓生长在树干高处。很明显这并非寻常苔藓，而是一种西班牙苔藓[1]，当时中国并没有这来自新世界的植物。 [1] 一种热带、亚热带植物，常 生在大树上，暴布一般大片垂下
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