Tao Te Ching

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Deftly introduced by Burton Watson and enriched by the remarkable ink paintings of Stephen Addiss, this new translation of the Tao Te Ching captures the terse and enigmatic beauty of the ancient original while resisting the tendency toward interpretive paraphrase found in many other editions. Along with the translation of the complete work, Lombardo and Addiss provide the reader with a measure of interaction with the Chinese text found in no other edition, by furnishing one or more key lines from the original Chinese for each, of the eighty-one sections, together with a transliteration of the Chinese characters. The appearance and sounds of the Chinese, and a glossary giving the meaning of each Chinese character displayed, enhance the reader's appreciation of how the Chinese text works and feels and the many different ways it can be translated into English.
"This crystalline translation of the Tao Te Ching is accurate down to the nuance and as concisely poetic as the original. It... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Deftly introduced by Burton Watson and enriched by the remarkable ink paintings of Stephen Addiss, this new translation of the Tao Te Ching captures the terse and enigmatic beauty of the ancient original while resisting the tendency toward interpretive paraphrase found in many other editions. Along with the translation of the complete work, Lombardo and Addiss provide the reader with a measure of interaction with the Chinese text found in no other edition, by furnishing one or more key lines from the original Chinese for each, of the eighty-one sections, together with a transliteration of the Chinese characters. The appearance and sounds of the Chinese, and a glossary giving the meaning of each Chinese character displayed, enhance the reader's appreciation of how the Chinese text works and feels and the many different ways it can be translated into English.
"This crystalline translation of the Tao Te Ching is accurate down to the nuance and as concisely poetic as the original. It preserves the quirks and flavors of the original text. The translators hearkened to the message of the book itself, and kept it clear and gently strong. Of the many translations I have read in English this is unquestionably the best."
—Gary Snyder, University of California at Davis
"This is by far the best translation on the market today, and I have been praising it to whoever would listen." —livia Kohn, Boston University
Stephen Addiss is Tucker-Boatwright Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Art, University of Richmond.
Stanley Lombardo is Professor of Classics, University of Kansas.
Burton Watson is Professor Emeritus, Columbia University Vissza