John Felstiner
Autor de Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew (Yale Nota Bene)
Sobre El Autor
John Felstiner teaches at Stanford University. (Bowker Author Biography)
Obras de John Felstiner
The Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The Turn of the Screw: And Other Stories (Konemann Classics) (1966) — Epílogo, algunas ediciones — 353 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Felstiner, John
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1936-07-05
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Mount Vernon, New York, USA
- Educación
- Harvard College (BA)
Harvard University (PhD) - Ocupaciones
- professor
- Organizaciones
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Premios y honores
- Kenyon Review Prize (Criticism, 1967)
California Commonwealth Club Gold Medal (Non-fiction)
Miembros
Reseñas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 7
- También por
- 3
- Miembros
- 286
- Popularidad
- #81,618
- Valoración
- 4.2
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 18
- Idiomas
- 3
- Favorito
- 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.… (más)