Language and Silence

乔治·斯坦纳 George Steiner (1929 - )，美国著名文艺批评大师与翻译理论家，当代杰出的人文主义知识分子，熟谙英、法、德等数国语言与文化，执教于牛津、哈佛等著名高校。主要研究语言、文学与社会之间的关系及“二战”大屠杀的影响。美国文理学院荣誉会员，曾 获法国政府荣誉团骑士级奖章、阿方索·雷耶斯国际奖等多项殊荣。代表作有《语言与沉默》《悲剧之死》《巴别塔之后》等。译者 李小均，深圳大学外国语学院教授。著有《自由与反讽》、《信仰之海》，译有《薇拉》、《纳博科夫评传》、《苏格拉底与阿里斯托芬》、《梅尔维尔的政治哲学》、《在西方的目光下》、《在美国》、《古罗马的马车竞赛》、《碎心曲》、《尼采的使命》等。

出版者:Yale University Press

作者:George Steiner

页数:440

出版时间:1998-12-11

价格:USD 42.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780300074710

图书标签:西方文论George_SteinerGeorgeSteiner英文原版★Literature文学英语Censorship

How do we evaluate the power and utility of language when it has been made to articulate falsehoods in certain totalitarian regimes or has been charged with vulgarity and imprecision in a mass-consumer democracy? How will language react to the increasingly urgent claims of more exact speech such as mathematics and symbolic notation? These are some of the questions Steiner addresses in this elegantly written book, first published in 1967 to international acclaim.

读后感

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Great translators...offer to the original not an equivalence, for there can be none, but a vital counterpoise, an echo, faithful yet autonomous, as we find in the dialogue of human love. An act of translation is an act of love. Where it fails, through immodesty or blurred perception, it traduces. Where it succeeds, it incarnates.

Great translators...offer to the original not an equivalence, for there can be none, but a vital counterpoise, an echo, faithful yet autonomous, as we find in the dialogue of human love. An act of translation is an act of love. Where it fails, through immodesty or blurred perception, it traduces. Where it succeeds, it incarnates.

Why? What are the links, as yet scarcely understood, between the mental, psychological habits of high literacy and temptations of the inhuma

Great translators...offer to the original not an equivalence, for there can be none, but a vital counterpoise, an echo, faithful yet autonomous, as we find in the dialogue of human love. An act of translation is an act of love. Where it fails, through immodesty or blurred perception, it traduces. Where it succeeds, it incarnates.

如果这叫英文的话。。看来我还不知道什么叫英文。。。