Let in the Light
«I've spent fifty years translating Sanskrit texts, but only now has this book taught me how to read a text in a foreign language and how to read (and write) a translation. It is also a brilliant book about Latin, Augustine, God, and the meaning of life.»
Wendy Doniger, author of <i>The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth</i>
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Columbia University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780231205016
- Utgivelsesår
- 2022
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
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«I've spent fifty years translating Sanskrit texts, but only now has this book taught me how to read a text in a foreign language and how to read (and write) a translation. It is also a brilliant book about Latin, Augustine, God, and the meaning of life.»
Wendy Doniger, author of <i>The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth</i>
«Such careful, loving reading as we find in James Boyd White's book is as rare as it is precious. This is a book to be read slowly, allowing Augustine's Latin to resonate—to be felt even when little understood. For words are living things, and we here come to know that Augustine's Confessions is a work that is alive in words with all their human complexity— but above all with love.»
David Jasper, author of <i>Heaven in Ordinary: Religion and Poetry in a Secular Age</i>
«Let in the Light offers a better way to read a work of literature of enormous and enduring importance. White argues that our easy familiarity with the English language and the inevitable distance and distortions associated with any translation create a barrier between Augustine and his readers. He is a lively, clear, and engaging writer, and the book is extremely sophisticated about literary criticism but wears its sophistication lightly.»
M. Cathleen Kaveny, author of <i>Ethics at the Edges of Law: Christian Moralists and American Legal
«The book is a gift to anyone who loves the Confessions already, or indeed to anyone who wonders why the book has such standing in the theological and literary tradition.»
Religious Studies Review