Gilgamesh

出版者:Free Press

作者:Stephen Mitchell

页数:290

出版时间:2004-09-28

价格:USD 24.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780743261647

图书标签:史诗宗教+神话+经典神话Classics英文版文学诗歌耽美

Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, and although previously there have been competent scholarly translations of it, until now there has not been a version that is a superlative literary text in its own right. Acclaimed translator Stephen Mitchell's lithe, muscular rendering allows us to enter an ancient masterpiece as if for the first time, to see how startlingly beautiful, intelligent, and alive it is. His insightful introduction provides a historical, spiritual, and cultural context for this ancient epic, showing that Gilgamesh is more potent and fascinating than ever.

Gilgamesh dates from as early as 1700 BCE -- a thousand years before the Iliad. Lost for almost two millennia, the eleven clay tablets on which the epic was inscribed were discovered in 1853 in the ruins of Nineveh, and the text was not deciphered and fully translated until the end of the century. When the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke first read Gilgamesh in 1916, he was awestruck. "Gilgamesh is stupendous," he wrote. "I consider it to be among the greatest things that can happen to a person."

The epic is the story of literature's first hero -- the king of Uruk in what is present-day Iraq -- and his journey of self-discovery. Along the way, Gilgamesh discovers that friendship can bring peace to a whole city, that a preemptive attack on a monster can have dire consequences, and that wisdom can be found only when the quest for it is abandoned. In giving voice to grief and the fear of death -- perhaps more powerfully than any book written after it -- in portraying love and vulnerability and the ego's hopeless striving for immortality, the epic has become a personal testimony for millions of readers in dozens of languages.

读后感

吉尔伽美什，人类的第一部史诗，基本可以分为几个阶段，鱼肉乡里，战胜强敌，建设国家，打败怪兽，好友死亡，寻访长生，等。楔形文字能够翻译成现代文字，已经相当不易。里面遗失很多，但是很多内容还是发人深省。只是译者删去些内容，我就想问问，谁给你的权利，讲几千年的史...  

吉尔伽美什，人类的第一部史诗，基本可以分为几个阶段，鱼肉乡里，战胜强敌，建设国家，打败怪兽，好友死亡，寻访长生，等。楔形文字能够翻译成现代文字，已经相当不易。里面遗失很多，但是很多内容还是发人深省。只是译者删去些内容，我就想问问，谁给你的权利，讲几千年的史...  

世界古老的英雄王---吉尔伽美什，高傲并且残暴，为使他变的谦卑恭顺，诸神造了恩奇度。 一个陪衬的角色终难逃死亡的命运，但正是他的死让吉尔伽美什开始考虑生命、死亡的意义。虽然最后他失去了能让他永生的植物，但从中显示了苏美尔人对生命的看法：生命终于虚无，即使它看起...  

用户评价

金老师大一讲的 期末考试还考了????

虽然有批评作者整合译本时不够严谨又夹杂私物的，对于第一次读这个故事的人来说，是个有趣又好读的版本。看fate系列时会更注意到闪闪半神的思考方式，读完这本印象更深却是他人性的一面。对自身情感的表达直白又热烈，恐惧和追寻的依然是生而为人亘古不变的话题。感觉可以挖掘的好多呀，介于评论，又去下了Andrew George的版本，待读来对比ww【然后我看完似乎恩闪了（。

跨越千年历史大气格局的——BL小说。这版本腐得我作为基佬都脸红了好嘛。Gilgamesh如果都不爱Enkidu了，你他妈告诉我什么叫做爱！——Ishtar简直被黑出水了。

intro写的中西合并的。。还引用自己老婆的话哈哈哈

... 写了篇paper说gilgamesh 和enkidu的关系不只是朋友 （想写成sex love然。。。