Name: Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei
ISBN: 9780811226202

Who It's For

Good for readers who enjoy Poetry / Asian / Chinese
Good for fans of Poetry

What You Get

Reading lane: Asian and European.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing.

About This Book

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 m...

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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.”