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Over the years, octogenarian translator Burton Raffel has tackled and conquered many of the most forbidding challenges in world literature: Beowulf, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Don Quixote, the Nibelungenleid. This book finds him grappling quite gracefully with another behemoth, Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th-century classic The Canterbury Tales. For modern readers, the robustness and subtlety of this collection is often diluted by the vagaries of language evolution. With a respectful poetic hand, Raffel retouches Chaucer's minutely realized word portraits, recovering their sheen. A Modern Library translation destined to be both popular and critical acclaimed.
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The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
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- Jaar van publicatie
- 1996
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- Titel
- The Canterbury Tales
- Taal
- Engels
- Auteurs
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Uitgever
- Scala
- Jaar van publicatie
- 1996
- Reeks
- Tags
- Fictie, Historisch thema, Avontuur, Klassiekers, Korte Verhalen, School, Verhalen, Engeland, Engelse literatuur, Middeleeuwen, Satire, Verplichte Lectuur, Pelgrims
- Beoordeling
- 3,95 van 5
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- Over the years, octogenarian translator Burton Raffel has tackled and conquered many of the most forbidding challenges in world literature: Beowulf, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Don Quixote, the Nibelungenleid. This book finds him grappling quite gracefully with another behemoth, Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th-century classic The Canterbury Tales. For modern readers, the robustness and subtlety of this collection is often diluted by the vagaries of language evolution. With a respectful poetic hand, Raffel retouches Chaucer's minutely realized word portraits, recovering their sheen. A Modern Library translation destined to be both popular and critical acclaimed.