From the Bookshelf of Never too Late to Read Classics…
Find A Copy At
Group Discussions About This Book
No group discussions for this book yet.
What Members Thought
The Epic pulses with primitive rhythm and the mesmeric quality of repeating structures constructed under the oral tradition. Some lines of this translation feel as if they could be chanted and accompanied by drums.
It was scary, as well as fascinating: here is a voice from a time when life everywhere was harsher, when values were different - 1500-2000 years before Buddha or Jesus - and so many things we know wouldn't exist for millennia hence. We are very very far from home. At the same time the ...more
It was scary, as well as fascinating: here is a voice from a time when life everywhere was harsher, when values were different - 1500-2000 years before Buddha or Jesus - and so many things we know wouldn't exist for millennia hence. We are very very far from home. At the same time the ...more
É uma tradução do mito de Gilgamesh, o mais antigo registado, e parece seguir corretamente o mito (tanto quanto consigo perceber de outros excertos que li anteriormente em inglês).
Dec 31, 2011
slanderoid
marked it as to-read
Nov 12, 2013
Richard Zhu
marked it as to-read
Apr 06, 2018
Emily
marked it as to-read
Jan 18, 2019
Allison
marked it as to-read
Apr 04, 2021
Jay
marked it as to-read
Sep 19, 2022
adele
marked it as to-read
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
classic-shelf,
play-poetry
Oct 08, 2023
ForestGardenGal
marked it as to-read
