Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: (With More Ways)

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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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Publisher

Reprint edition (30 Dec. 2016), W. W. Norton & Company

Language

English

Paperback

64 pages

ISBN-10

0811226204

ISBN-13

978-0811226202

Dimensions

11.43 x 1.02 x 18.54 cm

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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei: (With More Ways)