Name: Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (with More Ways)
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Author: Weinberger, Eliot ; Paz, Octavio
ISBN: 9780811226202

portada Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (with More Ways)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Eliot Weinberger

Epilogue by

Octavio Paz

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

17.8 x 11.2 x 1.3 cm

Weight

0.09 kg.

ISBN13

9780811226202

Synopsis "Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (with More Ways)"

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."

Octavio Paz

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Octavio Irineo Paz Lozano (Ciudad de México, 31 de marzo de 1914-ibidem, 19 de abril de 1998), registrado al nacer como Octavio Irineo Paz Lozano, fue un poeta, ensayista y diplomático mexicano. Obtuvo el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1990 y el Premio Cervantes en 1981. Se le considera uno de los más influyentes autores del siglo XX y uno de los más grandes poetas de todos los tiempos.

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