{"product_id":"nineteen-ways-of-looking-at-wang-wei-9780811226202","title":"Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei","description":"The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in \u003cem\u003eNineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei\u003c\/em\u003e, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty--from a transliteration to Kenneth Rexroth's loose interpretation. As Octavio Paz writes in the afterword, \"Eliot Weinberger's commentary on the successive translations of Wang Wei's little poem illustrates, with succinct clarity, not only the evolution of the art of translation in the modern period but at the same time the changes in poetic sensibility.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWeinberger, Eliot:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eEliot Weinberger\u003c\/strong\u003e is an essayist, editor, and translator. He lives in New York City.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaz, Octavio:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eOctavio Paz\u003c\/strong\u003e (1914-1998) was born in Mexico City. He wrote many volumes of poetry, as well as a prolific body of remarkable works of nonfiction on subjects as varied as poetics, literary and art criticism, politics, culture, and Mexican history. He was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in 1977, the Cervantes Prize in 1981, and the Neustadt Prize in 1982. He received the German Peace Prize for his political work, and finally, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50618428817682,"sku":"9780811226202","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2178d3b8-6971-445c-b8d7-f26a3a446483.jpg?v=1732535482","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/nineteen-ways-of-looking-at-wang-wei-9780811226202","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}