Kalila und Dimna: Vom sinnreichen Umgang mit Freunden: Ausgewählte Fabeln des Bidpai

Title

en_US Kalila und Dimna: Vom sinnreichen Umgang mit Freunden: Ausgewählte Fabeln des Bidpai

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Language note: German

en_US Original language: eng

en_US Nacherzählt von Ramsay Wood; aus dem Amerikanischen übersetzt von Edgar Otten

Creator

en_US Kilrenny, Margaret See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Kilrenny, Margaret

en_US Lessing, Doris (Introduction)

Date

2016-01-25T19:58:33Z

en_US 2009-08

en_US 1986

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:58:33Z

Date Issued

en_US 1986

Abstract

en_US I realized as I approached the end of this long visit in Germany that I had missed the Wirthwein bookshop, which had been a good source for me two years earlier. Stopping by on my last day yielded this lovely translation of a favorite book into German. I am delighted that Herder picked up Wood's presentation, since I think it is a great text, well laid out and well conceived. The layout here is not quite as generous with spaces as the American original, but it seems to have all the side comments and drawings. New here is a final comment by the translator, Edgar Otten. I find it very good. He confronts the question why he would translate a liberal American transposition of an old text and not the pure old original text itself. His answer catches what the great translators, including Pforr in German, have always done with Kalila and Dimna. For them, the challenge has been Ueber Setzen, to bring the old original in lively fashion into their new circumstances. He aptly quotes Dr. Bidpai against commentators and analysts. Well done! The colorful dust-jacket has Kalila and Dimna facing each other. See my comments on the earlier editions, including the 1982 Paladin edition from Granada.

Identifier

en_US 9783451203961

en_US 6682 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81995

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Herder

en_US Freiburg im Breisgau

Subject

en_US PN989.I5 B415 1986 See all items with this value

en_US Bidpai See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole