John Felstiner
Autore di Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew (Yale Nota Bene)
Sull'Autore
John Felstiner teaches at Stanford University. (Bowker Author Biography)
Opere di John Felstiner
The Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Turn of the Screw: And Other Stories (Konemann Classics) (1966) — Postfazione, alcune edizioni — 352 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Felstiner, John
- Data di nascita
- 1936-07-05
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Mount Vernon, New York, USA
- Istruzione
- Harvard College (BA)
Harvard University (PhD) - Attività lavorative
- professor
- Organizzazioni
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Kenyon Review Prize (Criticism, 1967)
California Commonwealth Club Gold Medal (Non-fiction)
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Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 7
- Opere correlate
- 3
- Utenti
- 284
- Popolarità
- #82,067
- Voto
- 4.2
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 18
- Lingue
- 3
- Preferito da
- 1
To understand the whys and hows of a mid-career culmination like Heights however, you really need to understand what came before. As such, much of the book is taken up by a discussion of Neruda's life and poetry prior to his visit to Macchu Picchu and the composition born of that. That done, the work then discusses root words, vowel (and consonant) sounds, syllables and stresses, and the difficulties of expressing someone else's thoughts from one language to another.
A wonderful work that gave me a new understanding of Heights that I had failed to get from either the Tarn or Schmit translations, but at the same time unlikely to appeal to anyone who isn't interested in either Neruda or the process of translating, and preferably both.… (altro)