The Inferno of Dante
Robert Pinsky's new verse translation of Dante's Inferno, aiming to balance the original music of the poem with readability in English.
Work Information
Dante's hell is heard anew in modern English.
A new translation of Dante's Inferno designed to preserve both the poem's movement and its meaning. With notes and illustrations, it presents the Italian original and English translation side by side.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Published
- 1997-09-01
- Pages
- 464 pages
- Language
- イタリア語, 英語
- Size
- 15.44 x 2.59 x 22.38 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780374525316
- ISBN-10
- 0374525315
- Price
- 3632 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/Ancient, Classical & Medieval
This widely praised version of Dante's masterpiece, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award of the Academy of American Poets, is more idiomatic and approachable than its many predecessors. Former U.S. Poet Laureate Pinsky employs slant rhyme and near rhyme to preserve Dante's terza rima form without distorting the flow of English idiom. The result is a clear and vigorous translation that is also unique, student-friendly, and faithful to the original: "A brilliant success," as Bernard Knox wrote in The New York Review of Books .
A former Poet Laureate of the United States, Robert Pinsky was born and raised in Long Branch, New Jersey. He teaches in the graduate writing program at Boston University and has also taught at the University of California at Berkeley. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Reviews
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伊英対訳でダンテ神曲を読む
ダンテ神曲の英訳は数多くありますが、イタリア語原典と対訳形式のものはそれほど多くありません。本書は詩人によるダンテ「神曲：地獄編」の伊英対訳本です。本文は左側にイタリア語原典、右側に英訳が与えられています。神曲原典は3行1組の韻文で、最初と最後の行が同じ脚韻を踏み、第2行とつぎの3行の第1･3行が同じ脚韻を踏む、aba, bcb, cdc, ...という、いわば螺旋階段上に韻律が継続していく文体なのですが、英訳では第1･3行が同じ脚韻を踏むだけで、第2行と次の3行との関連はない韻文となっていますが、原典の雰囲気は伝わってきます。各曲の後にすぐ注釈があるわけではなく、巻末にすべてまとめて掲載されているので、少し不便な感じがします。また、各曲のあらすじが与えられていないので、何か他の入門書で補った方が読み進めやすいと思います。なお、この著者は地獄編しか訳していないようです。天国編まですべて伊英対訳で読みたい人は、Hollander & Hollanderによる英訳を選ぶべきでしょう。
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On Sex Tantamount
"Grand Inquisitor" has briefed another thesis statement in The Age of Science and Capital. It is beyond sexual that WMD be partaken in Spanish after this "American Experience": ¡La japonesa va a secar en la zanja, Mariana Trench et a coger Coño! I cried with face upraised, and on the sand those three sad spirits looked at one another like men who hear the truth and understand. (Ciarki 145)
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Excellent!
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The title The Comedy is appropriate in two ways. First, the poem is written in the vernacular, which was considered appropriate only for a comedy. Second, the plot mirrors the flow of a classical comedy, progressing from the horrors of Hell to the joys of Heaven. Despite his seeming modesty, however, Dante was confident both that his poetry surpassed that of any other vernacular writer and that he could use the high, tragic style to perfection, as he had proved in Vita Nuova. The Comedy is not exclusively “high” or “low”; rather, it is a truly universal work. It deals with one of the great questions of humanity: the existence of an afterlife and the consequences of our lives on Earth. For Dante, this question was worthy of calling upon philosophers and poets alike, and of utilizing every available style, as he does throughout Inferno.
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Good and nice book.
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Ein tolles Produkt, das ganz meiner Erwartung entspricht. Die Lieferung verlief reibungslos und ich bin vollstens zufrieden.
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Book came in good condition