Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Wanted

A translation that does justice to Hölderlin. Someone? Anyone?

Please?

This side of language I'm allowed schadenfreude - I'd like to see them translate John Ashbery...

2 Comments:

Blogger Alok said...

okay finally one post which made some sense to me ;)

Haven't read anything by Holderlin... But you might be interested in this, if you access to a library or are a subscriber. this appeared in a recent edition of nyrb.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/article-preview?article_id=19464

so far as I could understand the essay, coetzee mostly discusses german philosophy (hegel and schelling) in the review rather than poetry or translation but i think it should be helpful.

8:14 AM  
Blogger Cheshire Cat said...

Hadn't seen that before, thanks!

12:46 AM  

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