"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 豆友87717104 2017-04-20 14:00:21
真是一个十分复杂的文本……
1 有用 Analore 2021-12-22 08:25:05
看的是Robert Pinsky的翻译版本
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)
4 有用 Undefined 2015-12-17 17:10:17
把尤利西斯写得太可爱了,“那团古老的火焰的较大的角开始摇曳起来,并飒飒作响”,开始脑补一只胖胖的火球球🔥扭啊扭啊扭得挪过来开始说话 = =
0 有用 wonsaponatime 2020-02-08 14:42:04
感觉新版还是插图最棒(