The Book of Good Love

Title

en_US The Book of Good Love

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Original language: spa

en_US Juan Ruiz. Translated by Rigo Mignani and Mario A. Di Cesare

Creator

en_US Di Cesare, Mario A. (translator) See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T19:02:19Z

en_US 1998-12

en_US 1970

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:02:19Z

Date Issued

en_US 1970

Abstract

en_US I just finished reading Kane's translation of the same work (1933) from cover to cover. This SUNY translation has several things to offer. Now that I know it, I wish I had known it sooner! First, its introduction presents a clear overview of the whole work in terms of the narrator's fourteen love-affairs, preceded by a prayer. The introduction goes on to examine each of the affairs. I am happy to see that the writers are sensitive to the role that fables play in the narrator's pleas and the rejections by his intendeds. The translators opt for a modest prose translation rather than for the freewheeling adaptation that they find from Kane, even though it is frolicsome and gay (30). Elsewhere they describe Kane's translation as free, lively, interpretive, at times inaccurate (362). This squarish (6 x 7¼) book finishes with a set of notes and a bibliography. It is the text that I will read when I come back to the work next time. It has already helped me correct my understanding of several of the fables I report on in Kane's translation.

Identifier

en_US 0873950488

en_US 4008 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79348

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US State University of New York Press

en_US Albany, NY

Subject

en_US PQ6430.A5 E5 1970 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole