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庭院深深：最美的宋詞英譯新詮
★最美的《宋詞》中英雙語讀本★中國翻譯名家許淵沖 英譯古詩詞 ╳ 暢銷作家吳俁陽 深度解讀、詩詞賞析★跨越兩種語言，韻律渾然天成，引領你優游不同語言文化，深入理解詩詞之美「把一個國家的美，轉化為全世界的美，這是全世界最大的樂趣。」──許淵沖本書精選了最美的《宋詞》143首，由中國翻譯名家許淵沖英譯古詩，當代暢銷作家吳俁陽深度解讀、精彩賞析。高齡百歲的中國翻譯名家許淵沖，從事文學翻譯長達六十餘年，譯作涵蓋中、英、法等語種，翻譯集中在中國古詩英譯，形成韻體譯詩的方法與理論，被譽為「詩譯英法唯一人」。錢鍾書先生曾讚賞他的翻譯：「靈活自如，令人驚奇。」對於中文詩詞西譯，許淵沖曾經提出「三美論」，即意美、音美、形美。許先生認為：「在不歪曲作者意思的情況下，翻譯一定要把一個民族文化的味道、精髓、靈魂體現出來。」亦即在不違反求真的前提下盡量求美。本書除了收錄許老精彩的《宋詞》英譯，並邀請當代暢銷作家陸蘇撰寫深度解讀和詩詞賞析。化解字句難點，細細剖析典故，深挖時代背景、歷史典故、現代價值，闡釋每首詩與眾不同的存在意義。並附詩人小傳，記載宋代詞人們傳奇的人生經歷，讀詞也讀人，不僅能讓ť
336 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 31, 2021
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January 31, 2024
This is a bilingual (Chinese / English) anthology of Song Dynasty poetry. It features more than 140 poems by almost fifty poets of the Song Dynasty, but a few of the Song poetic rockstars are particularly well represented (e.g. Su Shi, Qin Guan, Ouyang Xiu, and Xin Qiji.) The principal language of the book is Chinese (Mandarin) and so, while the poems themselves appear in English as well as Chinese, the ancillary matter is only in Chinese. Said ancillary matter includes notes, contextual information, bio-blurbs on the poets, and brief front and back matter.
I learned after reading the translations, that the translator was Xu Yuanchong and that he was (i.e. he's now deceased) a very big deal as a translator, translating classical Chinese poetry into both English and French. All in all, I enjoyed the translations and found them to be sound as poems in their own right. That said, my personal preference would have been to have had less effort put into maintaining rhyme. I suspect a closer transmission of the ideas of the originals could have been achieved without the forced constraint of rhyme. Furthermore, while in many cases metering was attended to, sometimes it was not, leaving those poems to have a doggerel quality. [I come to this conclusion by comparing a few of the poem's translations to those by other translators as well as to literal translations.] That said, the translator was clearly no slouch, and his stylistic choices were likely informed by what was popular during his career.
This book is part of a series. Other volumes include: In the Thick Woods a Deer Is Seen at Times (Tang Dynasty poems) and A Pair of Swallows Fly (from The Book of Songs, a.k.a. The Classic of Poetry. I picked this book up in Taipei's Zhongshan Book Street (Eslite Bookstore,) and don't know how widely available the books of this series are outside of Taiwan, but if you are interested in Classical Chinese poetry and can find a copy, I'd recommend it.
I learned after reading the translations, that the translator was Xu Yuanchong and that he was (i.e. he's now deceased) a very big deal as a translator, translating classical Chinese poetry into both English and French. All in all, I enjoyed the translations and found them to be sound as poems in their own right. That said, my personal preference would have been to have had less effort put into maintaining rhyme. I suspect a closer transmission of the ideas of the originals could have been achieved without the forced constraint of rhyme. Furthermore, while in many cases metering was attended to, sometimes it was not, leaving those poems to have a doggerel quality. [I come to this conclusion by comparing a few of the poem's translations to those by other translators as well as to literal translations.] That said, the translator was clearly no slouch, and his stylistic choices were likely informed by what was popular during his career.
This book is part of a series. Other volumes include: In the Thick Woods a Deer Is Seen at Times (Tang Dynasty poems) and A Pair of Swallows Fly (from The Book of Songs, a.k.a. The Classic of Poetry. I picked this book up in Taipei's Zhongshan Book Street (Eslite Bookstore,) and don't know how widely available the books of this series are outside of Taiwan, but if you are interested in Classical Chinese poetry and can find a copy, I'd recommend it.
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