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

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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 (Mexico City, March 31, 1914-ibidem, April 19, 1998), registered at birth as Octavio Irineo Paz Lozano, was a Mexican poet, essayist, and diplomat. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990 and the Cervantes Prize in 1981. He is considered one of the most influential authors of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets of all time.

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