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Con sus más de 3 mil 500 años de antigüedad, La epopeya de Gilgamesh es considerada la obra literaria más antigua de la humanidad. Resulta fascinante, por tanto, que una obra con esa longevidad sea tan actual, pues aborda los problemas que preocupan al ser humano desde siempre: la finitud de la vida, la amistad, el deseo de realizar grandes empresas... Esta edición pretende acercar a los jóvenes de secundaria y bachillerato a una obra que, por su profundo sentido humano, emociona y sorprende al lector de hoy.… (más)
Los fragmentos más antiguos que se conservan de La epopeya de Gilgamesh son obra de un poeta paleobabilónico que escribió hace más de tres mil setecientos años. Fue compuesta en lengua acadia, pero sus orígenes literarios se remontan a cinco poemas sumerios. En ella se cuenta la historia de Gilgamesh, el gran rey de Uruk, sus encuentros con monstruos y dioses, su enfrentamiento y posterior amistad con Enkidu el salvaje, el nacido en las tierras altas, y su arduo viaje en busca del secreto de la inmortalidad. Además de abordar temas como la familia, la amistad o los deberes del rey, La epopeya de Gilgamesh versa, sobre todo, de la lucha eterna del hombre contra el miedo a la muerte.
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I will proclaim to the world the deeds of Gilgamesh. ...
trans. N.K. Sandars (1960)
It is an old story But one that can still be told About a man who loved And lost a friend to death And learned he lacked the power To bring him back to life.
trans. Mason (1972)
The Story of him who knew the most of all men know; who made the journey; heartbroken; reconciled;
who knew the way things were before the Flood, the secret things, the mystery; who went
to the end of the earth, and over; who returned, and wrote the story on a tablet of stone.
trans. Ferry (1992)
He who saw the Deep, the country's foundation, (who) knew . . . , was wise in all matters! (Gilgamesh, who) saw the Deep, the country's foundation (who) knew . . . , was wise in all matters!
(He) . . . everywhere . . . and (learnt) of everything the sum of wisdom. He saw what was secret, discovered what was hidden. he brought back a tale of before the Deluge.
trans. George (1999)
He had seen everything, had experienced all emotions, from exaltation to despair, had been granted a vision into the great mystery, the secret places, the primeval days before the Flood. ...
trans. Mitchell (2004)
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To be sure, the lonely frustrations of the survivors is the same after every death, immorally or otherwise caused. And everyone is wise in saying, There is nothing you can do; but such wisdom does not reconcile any of us really to loss, for we knew the other as a person in himself not as an abstraction we could do without. We lost the one who we didn't realize enabled us to live in other people's worlds; now we have only our own private world and the almost herculean task of constructing a human reentry. [...]
Two friends in Paris helped me to understand two essential ingredients of Wisdom, the third ingredient being acceptance, referred to before, which one can only come by within oneself on one's return.
(Herbert Mason's Afterword to the Mariner edition, pp. 110-111)
(Utnapishtim speaking to Gilgamesh) [...]I would grieve At all that may befall you still If I did not know you must return And bury your own loss and build Your world anew with your own hands.
(from the Herbert Mason translation)
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'O Ur-shanabi, climb Uruk's wall and walk back and forth! Survey its foundations, examine the brickwork! Were its bricks not fired in an oven? Did the Seven Sages not lay its foundations?
'A square mile is city, a square mile date-grove, a square mile is clay-pit, half a square mile the temple of Ishtar: three square miles and a half is Uruk's expanse.'
When at last they arrived, Gilgamesh said to Urshanabi, 'This is the wall of Uruk, which no city on earth can equal. See how its ramparts gleam like copper in the sun. Climb the stone staircase, more ancient than the mind can imagine, approach the Eanna Temple, sacred to Ishtar, a temple no king has equalled in size and beauty, walk on the wall of Uruk, follow its course around the city, inspect its mighty foundations, examine its brickwork, how masterfully it is built, observe the land it encloses: the palm trees, the gardens, the orchards, the glorious palaces and temples, the shops and marketplaces, the houses, the public squares'.
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This work is any complete, unabridged translation of the Standard Version of The Epic of Gilgamesh. To quote the FAQ on combining - "A work brings together all different copies of a book, regardless of edition, title variation, or language." Translations of the Old Babylonian Versions should remain separate, as should translations of the early Sumerian Gilgamesh stories and poems from which the epic came to be. Based on currently accepted LibraryThing convention, the Norton Critical Edition is treated as a separate work, ostensibly due to the extensive additional, original material included.
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Con sus más de 3 mil 500 años de antigüedad, La epopeya de Gilgamesh es considerada la obra literaria más antigua de la humanidad. Resulta fascinante, por tanto, que una obra con esa longevidad sea tan actual, pues aborda los problemas que preocupan al ser humano desde siempre: la finitud de la vida, la amistad, el deseo de realizar grandes empresas... Esta edición pretende acercar a los jóvenes de secundaria y bachillerato a una obra que, por su profundo sentido humano, emociona y sorprende al lector de hoy.
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