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.
第一次知道吉尔伽美什,还是因为fate系列那个金发作死傲娇“杂修”狂,那个时候觉得他好可爱,然后忍不住就开始搜集他的资料。最后就查到了《吉尔伽美什史诗》。 这部史诗不长,但是描述了一个人的成长史。从最开始的不成熟,到最后的贤王典范,吉尔伽美什一路转变。他年轻时的...
評分吉尔伽美什,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...
評分“吉尔伽美什呦,你要流浪到哪里? 你所探求的生命将无处寻觅。 自从诸神把人创造, 就把死派定给人无疑, 生命就保留在他们自己的手里! …… …….” ——《吉尔伽美什》第十块泥板•三(B) 吉尔伽美什为大神阿鲁鲁所创造,他身世非凡、膂力过人、英姿绝伦,他“三分之二...
評分吉尔伽美什,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...
評分金老師大一講的 期末考試還考瞭????
评分通俗易懂引人入勝哈哈哈
评分這個結局真棒。
评分因為Fate,對吉爾伽美什的興趣爆棚瞭,在kindle上花瞭七十多買瞭這本書,看完感嘆,這真的是人類有史以來最早的BL小說啊,倆基友不管走到哪兒還要手拉手233 從劇情本身來說,太震撼瞭。這不是神話,也不完全是史詩,這是人性爆棚的人話。吉爾伽美什心路成長曆程細膩閤理,書中隨處是人生哲學,關於名譽,關於性愛,關於死亡。
评分這個作者的解說還是非常耽美傾嚮的……他自己也錶示瞭該書與其稱作translation不如更是吉爾伽美什故事一個闡釋【版本】。畢竟作者自己也不懂阿卡德語,一切隻是基於七學者的譯本整閤,加以自己的理解衍化成的通俗英語科普版。
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