Translating Neruda: The Way to Macchu Picchu Soft cover - 1980
by Felstiner, John
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- Title Translating Neruda: The Way to Macchu Picchu
- Author Felstiner, John
- Binding Soft cover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Condition Used - Fine
- Pages 284
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press, USA
- Date 1980
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # ABE-1592970566851
- ISBN 9780804713276 / 0804713278
- Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
- Dimensions 8.62 x 5.52 x 0.69 in (21.89 x 14.02 x 1.75 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Neruda, Pablo, Translating and interpreting
- Dewey Decimal Code 861
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From the rear cover
forgotten once the new poem stands intact in translation. Yet a verse
translation derives from historical, biographical, and philosophical
research, interpretive analysis of the original poem, and continuous
linguistic and prosodic choices that parallel those the poet made. Taking as a text Pablo Neruda's brilliant prophetic sequence Alturas de
Macchu Picchu
(1945), the author here re-creates the entire process of
translation, from his first encounter with the poem to the last shaping of
a phrase that may never come right in English. This many-faceted book
forms an essay on the theory and practice of literary translation, a study
of Neruda's career through 1945, and an interpretation of his major poem, all of which lead to a striking new poem in English, Heights of Macchu Picchu
, printed along with the original Spanish. This genesis of a verse translation also includes little-known biographical data, hitherto untranslated poems and prose from the years 1920 to 1945, and new translations of key poems from Neruda's Residence on Earth
and Spain in My Heart
.
