(Good night, sweet Prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.) "It is an utterly simple line and I think it is a very, very beautiful line. It contains 14 syllables in English. I have looked at all the main translations into Japanese and they all contain at least three times that number of syllables. It takes longer to say something in Japanese than it does in English, and so the rhythm must be different. I always liken the translator to a counterfeiter … his task is to imitate the original down to the last detail." Edward Seidensticker
Posted on: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 05:30:55 +0000
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