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| Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse
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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date: 1993-06-01
ISBN-10: 0374523835
ISBN-13: 9780374523831
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A new verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest works in Western Literature. Ferry makes Gilgamesh available in the kind of energetic and readable translation that Robert Fitzgerald and Richard Lattimore have provided for.
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| Customer Rating: | | thank you, wish I had gotten it sooner since i paid extra to have it shipped quicker. |
A Word for Veritas Press Homeschoolers.
| Customer Rating: | | This version of Gilgamesh is very easy to read. If you are using Veritas Press Omnibus this is the version to get. A note to be aware of though is that it does have adult themes in it so if you are using it for 7th grade as recommended by Veritas Press then you should read it first to be familiar with the areas with sensative content. The best thing to do is to buy two copies and read it with your student. |
An Amazing Story
| Customer Rating: | | I first encountered the tale of Gilgamesh in my college mythology class in which we used this version by David Ferry. As has been said before it is a very good translation of an epic story. Now some might not like the idea that Ferry took some poetic liberties with the story, but by keeping it a literal translation you lose the power and beauty of the story, and basically the main point of the mythos. |
LOST IN TRANSLATION?!
| Customer Rating: | The classic Babylonian tale Gilgamesh has been stripped of its heritage by a Harvard conspiracy of formalist secondhand vernacular, a misappropriation of visual craft by Dimitri Hadzi (Hadzi's Twin Gates occupies the front cover of the book.), and careful packaging that sacrifices a sincere scholasticism and cultural integrity for profitable accessibility. Having read Gilgamesh a year ago, the prospects of reading the story again for class was initially seen as more of a joy than a burden. I remember being moved by how Gilgamesh struggled over the death of his companion Enkidu. Gilgamesh's foolish search for immortality, struck me in its poignant display by how it was ultimately undermined by a simple passing distraction.
Dimitri Hadzi's involvement is in many ways an accurate portrayal of where the direction of how the "formalist approach"[1] is continued in the translation done by David Ferry. This type of juxtaposition is harmful to the cultural integrity of Gilgamesh since "modernist primitivism ultimately depends on the autonomous force of objects-and especially on the capacity of tribal art to transcend the intentions and conditions that first shaped it."[2] Formally speaking, David Ferry has been able to synthesize a version of Gilgamesh by an osmosis from other translations because he "cannot read cuneiform and [he] do[es] not know the language, or languages the Gilgamesh epic was written in".
Noticing off-hand that most of the direct contributors of the book are Harvard affiliates, it made me think of what the intentions are of this rendition. The author, sculptor, introduction, and review are all either done by Harvard grads or Professors. I found this version to be a disappointment compared to the previous version I have read. So... If you don't like Gilgamesh... maybe it's just the translation that doesn't speak to you.
[1] "According to this first view, privileging the study of an object's form (its color, shape, patterns, textures) results in a responsible understanding of what art is really about: an object's aesthetic qualities. The second approach, the anthropological approach, emphasizes contextual education: how an object fits into a culture's social practices. According to this second view, the more one knows about a culture, the better one can contextualize work from that culture and thus responsibly understand the work." Leonard Diepeveen and Timothy Van laar. Art With A Difference: Looking at Difficult and Unfamiliar Art (New York:McGraw-Hill,2001),49.
[2] Museum of Modern Art, "Modernist Primitivism: An Introduction," in "Primitivism" in 20th-Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern, ed. William Rubin, vol. 1 (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1984),x
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The Relaxing Version
| Customer Rating: | | It is no secret that Ferry ignored many of the laws of translation and compiled a much more modern version of the story. For people who have never read Gilgamesh and would like to enjoy the story without fretting over the basic intellectual and scholarly elements, this is exactly what you want to read. It is poetic, relaxing, and enjoyable. |
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