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.
吉尔伽美什,即巴比伦的赫拉克勒斯,力大无比,宛如野牛。 《吉尔伽美什》里他的身世显赫,贵为女神宁孙之子,同时姿容隽秀,拥有“见过万物”、“通晓一切”的智慧,然而他的统治残暴无比,但对他残暴的描写仅仅限于开篇。整部史诗对吉尔伽美什桀骜不驯的描写不多,而是相反除...
评分吉尔伽美什,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...
评分 评分吉尔伽美什,即巴比伦的赫拉克勒斯,力大无比,宛如野牛。 《吉尔伽美什》里他的身世显赫,贵为女神宁孙之子,同时姿容隽秀,拥有“见过万物”、“通晓一切”的智慧,然而他的统治残暴无比,但对他残暴的描写仅仅限于开篇。整部史诗对吉尔伽美什桀骜不驯的描写不多,而是相反除...
评分校图书馆居然有这本书我太惊讶了!该说这不愧是金闪闪么,封面好闪!
评分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(。
评分The speaker of CrashCourse says what makes Gilgamesh truly heroic is his human limitations. But I guess not. Does the realization of unavoidable death really free him at the end of the story? ????
评分到最后印象最深的还是“the capacity of love”
评分最早的文学作品,居然是一部如此成熟的史诗。再到荷马、日耳曼史诗,居然一部比一部年轻。He who saw the deep 传统祭司版是诗人杰作。故事本身的奇绝瑰丽和复杂远超预期。
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