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A new expanded edition of the classic study of translation, finally back in print The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty—from a transliteration to Kenneth Rexroth’s loose interpretation. As Octavio Paz writes in the afterword, “Eliot Weinberger’s commentary on the successive translations of Wang Wei’s little poem illustrates, with succinct clarity, not only the evolution of the art of translation in the modern period but at the same time the changes in poetic sensibility.”
Book-length essay that explores a bunch of ways a classic Chinese poem has been translated over the years. Fun if you're into translation. Executive Summary: Translation is impossible but interesting.
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (with More Ways) | 
