Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, and although previously there have been competent scholarly translations of it, until now there has not been a version that is a superlative literary text in its own right. Acclaimed translator Stephen Mitchell's lithe, muscular rendering allows us to enter an ancient masterpiece as if for the first time, to see how startlingly beautiful, intelligent, and alive it is. His insightful introduction provides a historical, spiritual, and cultural context for this ancient epic, showing that Gilgamesh is more potent and fascinating than ever.
Gilgamesh dates from as early as 1700 BCE -- a thousand years before the Iliad. Lost for almost two millennia, the eleven clay tablets on which the epic was inscribed were discovered in 1853 in the ruins of Nineveh, and the text was not deciphered and fully translated until the end of the century. When the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke first read Gilgamesh in 1916, he was awestruck. "Gilgamesh is stupendous," he wrote. "I consider it to be among the greatest things that can happen to a person."
The epic is the story of literature's first hero -- the king of Uruk in what is present-day Iraq -- and his journey of self-discovery. Along the way, Gilgamesh discovers that friendship can bring peace to a whole city, that a preemptive attack on a monster can have dire consequences, and that wisdom can be found only when the quest for it is abandoned. In giving voice to grief and the fear of death -- perhaps more powerfully than any book written after it -- in portraying love and vulnerability and the ego's hopeless striving for immortality, the epic has become a personal testimony for millions of readers in dozens of languages.
为什么辽宁人民出版社居然会在2015年出版这样一本书,这恐怕是一个迷。今后我大概会对辽宁人民出版社的书敬而远之,读下来觉得它的态度太过敷衍,根本感觉不到对读者的尊重。 吉尔伽美什史诗一共也就12块石板,经历了两千多年的侵蚀,留存下来的连贯词句已经不多了,大部分段落...
評分 評分 評分吉尔伽美什,人类的第一部史诗,基本可以分为几个阶段,鱼肉乡里,战胜强敌,建设国家,打败怪兽,好友死亡,寻访长生,等。楔形文字能够翻译成现代文字,已经相当不易。里面遗失很多,但是很多内容还是发人深省。只是译者删去些内容,我就想问问,谁给你的权利,讲几千年的史...
評分有没有人从《吉尔伽美什》里面吉尔伽美什派神妓去降服恩巴都,让他从野人逐渐变成文明人的情节联想到沈从文的《扇陀》啊?我觉得两者在情节上很像,《扇陀》里面国王派扇陀去山中降伏候补仙人,仙人也是被女人给迷住了,随扇陀来到城里,只不过这个故事是完全以此为主线的。挺...
金老師大一講的 期末考試還考瞭????
评分因為Fate,對吉爾伽美什的興趣爆棚瞭,在kindle上花瞭七十多買瞭這本書,看完感嘆,這真的是人類有史以來最早的BL小說啊,倆基友不管走到哪兒還要手拉手233 從劇情本身來說,太震撼瞭。這不是神話,也不完全是史詩,這是人性爆棚的人話。吉爾伽美什心路成長曆程細膩閤理,書中隨處是人生哲學,關於名譽,關於性愛,關於死亡。
评分intro寫的中西閤並的。。還引用自己老婆的話哈哈哈
评分到最後印象最深的還是“the capacity of love”
评分校圖書館居然有這本書我太驚訝瞭!該說這不愧是金閃閃麼,封麵好閃!
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