The Odyssey.
The Discovery| N° d'inventaire | 23515 |
| Format | 13 x 20 |
| Détails | 486 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2017 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782707194398 |
“O Muse, tell me the adventure of the inventive one: he who plundered Troy, who for years wandered, seeing many cities, discovering many customs, suffering much anguish in his soul on the sea to defend his life and the return of his sailors without being able to save a single one…”
Is there any need to introduce this "very old poem"? Philippe Jaccottet's superb translation brings Homer's epic to life, coming "to its reader, or perhaps better, to its listener, a bit like the way those statues or luminous columns come to meet the traveler in the crystal-clear air of Greece..."
“O Muse, tell me the adventure of the inventive one: he who plundered Troy, who for years wandered, seeing many cities, discovering many customs, suffering much anguish in his soul on the sea to defend his life and the return of his sailors without being able to save a single one…”
Is there any need to introduce this "very old poem"? Philippe Jaccottet's superb translation brings Homer's epic to life, coming "to its reader, or perhaps better, to its listener, a bit like the way those statues or luminous columns come to meet the traveler in the crystal-clear air of Greece..."