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ISBN-10: 0811226204
ISBN-13: 9780811226202
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 10/11/2016
Dimensions: 7.00" L, 4.40" W, 0.50" H

Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei

Afterword by: Octavio Paz

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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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Weinberger is like an ancient Chinese zither player, tuning lonely in the mountain overlooking the world.–Bei Dao
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Details

ISBN-10: 0811226204
ISBN-13: 9780811226202
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 10/11/2016
Dimensions: 7.00" L, 4.40" W, 0.50" H
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