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The Odyssey

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  • Nathanielhas quoted4 years ago
    It is traditional in statements like this Translator’s Note to bewail one’s own inadequacy when trying to be faithful to the original. Like many contemporary translation theorists, I believe that we need to rethink the terms in which we talk about translation. My translation is, like all translations, an entirely different text from the original poem. Translation always, necessarily, involves interpretation; there is no such thing as a translation that provides anything like a transparent window through which a reader can see the original.
  • Nathanielhas quoted4 years ago
    There is often a notion, especially in the Anglo-American world, that a translation is good insofar as it disguises its own existence as a translation; translations are praised for being “natural.” I hope that my translation is readable and fluent, but that its literary artifice is clearly apparent.
  • ♡emma♡has quoted4 years ago
    Odysseus, the lord of lies
  • ♡emma♡has quoted4 years ago
    I would have thrust my sword
    right through your belly, and your father would
    have held your funeral, and not your wedding.
    So from now on, you all should stay in check,
    here in my house.
  • ♡emma♡has quoted4 years ago
    he bowed his head in silence, contemplating
    his murderous plans
  • ♡emma♡has quoted4 years ago
    May the gods
    annihilate me
  • ♡emma♡has quoted4 years ago
    take some joy in hearing how much pain
    we each have suffered.
  • ♡emma♡has quoted4 years ago
    You never
    feel joy at heart. You have endured too much.
  • ♡emma♡has quoted4 years ago
    But all that grieving
    could do no good.
  • ♡emma♡has quoted4 years ago
    and any act of kindness is a blessing.
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