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.
普遍的断背山 托李安的福,如今谈起同性恋,大家直接说,“断背山。”因为这个词已经通过新闻媒体的不断轰炸而融入了流行语汇。“他们俩老粘在一起,是不是要断背山啊?”“帅哥都去搞断背山了。”“我就是不知道怎么才能放弃……”这种现象已经有点泛滥。但不管怎么说,同样...
評分上个再上个礼拜五听讲座的时候记下的一些笔记。最近期中考试,耽搁了没整理,差点荒芜了,还好还看得懂…… Epic of Gilgamesh的历史 古老的神话大部分都是集体创作的产物,Gilgamesh自然也不例外。 Gilgamesh诞生于公元前3000年左右的两河流域,比旧约(约公元前1500年)和伊...
評分普遍的断背山 托李安的福,如今谈起同性恋,大家直接说,“断背山。”因为这个词已经通过新闻媒体的不断轰炸而融入了流行语汇。“他们俩老粘在一起,是不是要断背山啊?”“帅哥都去搞断背山了。”“我就是不知道怎么才能放弃……”这种现象已经有点泛滥。但不管怎么说,同样...
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...
評分又看瞭一遍。這個版本實在太腐瞭,太腐太腐瞭,各種基情滿滿,簡直深得我心~不過話說迴來,如果它不這麼腐的話我實在是不知道東方文學作業該交啥~^ ^
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评分hmm可惜沒在教授講前兩章的時候換到課,故事挺有意思,用瞭一整晚看完。gilgamesh死的時候,能切身體會到enkidu的難過,這應該不能稱之為兄弟情瞭
评分這個作者的解說還是非常耽美傾嚮的……他自己也錶示瞭該書與其稱作translation不如更是吉爾伽美什故事一個闡釋【版本】。畢竟作者自己也不懂阿卡德語,一切隻是基於七學者的譯本整閤,加以自己的理解衍化成的通俗英語科普版。
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