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Over the years, octogenarian translator Burton Raffel has tackled and conquered many of the most forbidding challenges in world literature: Beowulf, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Don Quixote, the Nibelungenleid. This book finds him grappling quite gracefully with another behemoth, Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th-century classic The Canterbury Tales. For modern readers, the robustness and subtlety of this collection is often diluted by the vagaries of language evolution. With a respectful poetic hand, Raffel retouches Chaucer's minutely realized word portraits, recovering their sheen. A Modern Library translation destined to be both popular and critical acclaimed.
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The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1996
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- Titel
- The Canterbury Tales
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Verlag
- Scala
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1996
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historisches Thema, Abenteuer, Klassiker, Kurzgeschichten, Schule, Geschichten, England, Englische Literatur, Mittelalter, Satire, Pflichtlektüre, Pilger
- Bewertung
- 3,95 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- Over the years, octogenarian translator Burton Raffel has tackled and conquered many of the most forbidding challenges in world literature: Beowulf, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Don Quixote, the Nibelungenleid. This book finds him grappling quite gracefully with another behemoth, Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th-century classic The Canterbury Tales. For modern readers, the robustness and subtlety of this collection is often diluted by the vagaries of language evolution. With a respectful poetic hand, Raffel retouches Chaucer's minutely realized word portraits, recovering their sheen. A Modern Library translation destined to be both popular and critical acclaimed.