Jody Rosen27 июл., 20:36All kidding aside I love Emily Wilson's translation. (And her mind/wit/moral intelligence in general.) Can't wait to read her new book. Et cetera. But the rolling, tolling grandeur of Fagles' Odyssey (& Iliad) is my fave. Welcome to the Thunderdome.
Jody Rosen27 июл., 20:49By the way the LRB site is back up and Wilson's piece is greatEmily Wilson · An Uncomplicated ManAs they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...www.lrb.co.uk
Jody Rosen27 июл., 20:50And speaking of translators, Daniel Mendelsohn isn't terribly fond of Nolan's movie eitherArtful Weaving | Daniel MendelsohnAristotle, for one, wasn’t all that impressed by Odysseus’s adventures. In the seventeenth chapter of his Poetics he observes, apropos of the relationshipwww.nybooks.com