Chronology Entry
Year
1994
Text
Kenneth M. Price : Interview with Zhao Luorui.
Zhao, Luorui : I think the Chinese people, even the government, always considered Walt Whitman a democrat and a very good friend of the common people. T.S. Eliot was easier to translate, he could be done literally, word by word. It was not extremely difficult to translate The waste land. And I did some of Henry James's novellas, and I found them more difficult than Eliot – the sentences are so involved. But I found Whitman the most difficult. I had to know the man before I could translate him I didn't need to know Eliot to translate his poetry. But I did need to know Whitman as man – his habits of thought, his background, his idiosyncracies even – in order to be able to translate him.
Zhao, Luorui : I think the Chinese people, even the government, always considered Walt Whitman a democrat and a very good friend of the common people. T.S. Eliot was easier to translate, he could be done literally, word by word. It was not extremely difficult to translate The waste land. And I did some of Henry James's novellas, and I found them more difficult than Eliot – the sentences are so involved. But I found Whitman the most difficult. I had to know the man before I could translate him I didn't need to know Eliot to translate his poetry. But I did need to know Whitman as man – his habits of thought, his background, his idiosyncracies even – in order to be able to translate him.
Mentioned People (5)
Eliot, T.S.
(Saint Louis 1888-1965 London) : Amerikanisch-englischer Dichter, Dramatiker, Kritiker, Nobelpreisträger 1948
James, Henry (1)
(New York, N.Y. 1843-1916 Chelsea, England) : Amerikanischer Schriftsteller
Mu, Mutian
(Yitong, Jilin 1900-1971) : Dichter, Übersetzer
Whitman, Walt
(Long Island, New York 1819-1892 Camden, N.J.) : Dichter, Schriftsteller, Journalist
Zhao, Luorui
(1912-2000) : Dichterin, Übersetzerin
Subjects
Literature : Occident : Great Britain
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Literature : Occident : United States of America
Documents (1)
| # | Year | Bibliographical Data | Type / Abbreviation | Linked Data |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1995 |
Price, Kenneth M. An interview with Zhao Luorui. In : Walt Whitman quarterly review ; vol. 13, no 1 (1995). [Interview 1994 ; Betr. Walt Whitman]. http://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1480&context=wwqr. |
Publication / WhiW88 |