Weinberger seems a lot more interested in how translations influence latter translations in the new section.
There's some German translations and some more french translations. Also the translation that's in The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry which I wondered about because I have that book and its popular with anglophone c-ent fandom. (The commentary on it is about the influence of other translation and also notes that hanging moss is not native to China)
I liked this bit: "A translation of, say, a poem into English is a a kind of palimpsest. It is not a poem in English, as it will always be read as a translation: a text written on top of another text. Yet it is appreciated (or not appreciated) in the same ways we respond to an original poem: in awe at the delicacy and intricacy of its manipulation of the language, or disappointed by its chunkiness."
Re: Postscript
Date: 2021-11-28 06:23 pm (UTC)There's some German translations and some more french translations. Also the translation that's in The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry which I wondered about because I have that book and its popular with anglophone c-ent fandom. (The commentary on it is about the influence of other translation and also notes that hanging moss is not native to China)
I liked this bit:
"A translation of, say, a poem into English is a a kind of palimpsest. It is not a poem in English, as it will always be read as a translation: a text written on top of another text. Yet it is appreciated (or not appreciated) in the same ways we respond to an original poem: in awe at the delicacy and intricacy of its manipulation of the language, or disappointed by its chunkiness."