Gilgamesh A New Rendering in English Verse
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Sprache:Englisch
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ePUB
Kopierschutz
Nein
Family Sharing
Nein
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
11.11.2014
Verlag
Farrar, Straus and GirouxSeitenzahl
110 (Printausgabe)
Übersetzt von
David Ferry
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781466885028
"There have been other English accounts of this hero with a thousand descendants, but this is the first one that is as much poetry as scholarship." -Michael Dirda,
The Washington Post Book World
A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
This is a new verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest works in Western literature. Ferry makes
Gilgamesh available in the kind of energetic and readable translation that Robert Fitzgerald and Richard Lattimore have provided for readers in their translations of Homer and Virgil, and "brings a fresh interpretation to [its] power" (John Ray,
The Times Literary Supplement).
"Captures the elegiac and ironic undertones of Gilgamesh's failed search for immortality. One senses that [Ferry] has restored the poetry of this oldest epic." -
Publishers Weekly
"Like Edward Fitzgerald's
Rubaiyat or Ezra Pound's
Cathay, Mr. Ferry's
Gilgamesh is a miraculous transformation of [the] original into his own, utterly distinctive idiom... [Ferry's] technical genius and literary sophistication evoke not only the hero's anguish, but the rage and despair of the untouchable." -Tom Sleigh,
The New York Times Book Review
The Washington Post Book World
A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
This is a new verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest works in Western literature. Ferry makes
Gilgamesh available in the kind of energetic and readable translation that Robert Fitzgerald and Richard Lattimore have provided for readers in their translations of Homer and Virgil, and "brings a fresh interpretation to [its] power" (John Ray,
The Times Literary Supplement).
"Captures the elegiac and ironic undertones of Gilgamesh's failed search for immortality. One senses that [Ferry] has restored the poetry of this oldest epic." -
Publishers Weekly
"Like Edward Fitzgerald's
Rubaiyat or Ezra Pound's
Cathay, Mr. Ferry's
Gilgamesh is a miraculous transformation of [the] original into his own, utterly distinctive idiom... [Ferry's] technical genius and literary sophistication evoke not only the hero's anguish, but the rage and despair of the untouchable." -Tom Sleigh,
The New York Times Book Review
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