Posts tagged translation

Speak, Memory–
Of the cunning hero,
The wanderer, blown off course time and again
After he plundered Troy’s sacred heights.

Odyssey 1.1-4 

Translation: Stanley Lombardo

(via c-aesarion)

7 years ago
Americans Can Finally Read the Harrowing WW II Memoir 'Little Prince' Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Smuggled Out of France
flavorwire.com Americans Can Finally Read the Harrowing WW II Memoir 'Little Prince' Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Smuggled Out of France If the name Léon Werth is familiar to you, but you aren’t sure why, open to the first pages of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s novella The Little Prince. You’ll find it in the dedication. “To Léon Werth...

melvillehouse:

Leon Werth’s rare account of fleeing the nazis, with never-before-translated introduction by Antoine De Saint-Exupery, is now available for the first time in English.

8 years ago