"An exciting, vivid Inferno by a translator whose scholarship is impeccable."
--Chicago magazine
"The English Dante of choice."--Hugh Kenner.
"Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths."--Robert Fagles, Princeton University.
"Tough and supple, tender and violent . . . vigorous, vernacular . . . Mand...
"An exciting, vivid Inferno by a translator whose scholarship is impeccable."
--Chicago magazine
"The English Dante of choice."--Hugh Kenner.
"Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths."--Robert Fagles, Princeton University.
"Tough and supple, tender and violent . . . vigorous, vernacular . . . Mandelbaum's Dante will stand high among modern translations."--The Christian Science Monitor
"Lovers of the English language will be delighted by this eloquently accomplished enterprise."
--Book Review Digest
Product Description
In this superb translation with an introduction and commentary by Allen Mandelbaum, all of Dante's vivid images--the earthly, sublime, intellectual, demonic, ecstatic--are rendered with marvelous clarity to read like the words of a poet born in our own age.
'Even as one who dreams that he is harmed/ and, dreaming, wishes he were dreaming,thus/ desiring that which is, as if it were not/ ' Dante suggests that one should be thoroughly honest to his/her tru...'Even as one who dreams that he is harmed/ and, dreaming, wishes he were dreaming,thus/ desiring that which is, as if it were not/ ' Dante suggests that one should be thoroughly honest to his/her true nature as a human rather than an animal, the inferno was built under behaviors of all the sinners.(展开)
0 有用 井上冰 2021-08-31 23:57:53
2021#046 2018-02-26 购于亚马逊 in piedi: la via è lunga e 'l cammino è malvagio.
0 有用 刘皓 2021-12-26 21:59:47
Allen Mandelbaum,好译本!
1 有用 Daisy 2015-04-08 10:52:21
缜密
0 有用 豆友87717104 2017-04-20 14:00:21
真是一个十分复杂的文本……
0 有用 的地得执政官 2020-01-02 11:26:02
我爬过魔鬼冰冷的身躯,看见了群星。
0 有用 負里 2022-10-27 11:16:27 江苏
插圖不錯,還挺喜歡這個英譯本的
1 有用 。。。 2022-04-25 20:20:15
翻译和oxford world's classics的对照着看,这个版本好像更清楚精确一些,notes的话这个版本够用,不过oxford有些长注可以补充
0 有用 星實 2022-03-26 19:28:21
'Even as one who dreams that he is harmed/ and, dreaming, wishes he were dreaming,thus/ desiring that which is, as if it were not/ ' Dante suggests that one should be thoroughly honest to his/her tru... 'Even as one who dreams that he is harmed/ and, dreaming, wishes he were dreaming,thus/ desiring that which is, as if it were not/ ' Dante suggests that one should be thoroughly honest to his/her true nature as a human rather than an animal, the inferno was built under behaviors of all the sinners. (展开)
0 有用 刘皓 2021-12-26 21:59:47
Allen Mandelbaum,好译本!
1 有用 Analore 2021-12-22 08:25:05
看的是Robert Pinsky的翻译版本