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Decameron (Norton Library)

作者:Boccaccio, Giovanni/ Rebhorn, Wayne A.

出版社:Norton

出版日期:2022.12.01

ISBN:9780393427882

書號:30257153

裝訂:平裝

定價:$478

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內容簡介
《十日談》 薄伽丘

黑死病襲捲佛羅倫斯,十名年輕男女為躲避疫情,而到鄉間別墅住十天。他們決定以每人每天講一個故事作為消遣,因此有了書中的一百個故事。故事主題呈現了生活的各種風貌,當中更充滿了對於掌權者及教會的諷刺。

薄伽丘用文字構築出一個讓人能沉浸其中並短暫逃離現實的世界。虛構的故事及跳脫當時文學寫作的創新手法讓人們看見了小說的雛形。作品傳遍歐洲後,也影響了喬叟,並促使他創作了《坎特伯里故事集》

《十日談》由故事中的故事所組成,這些故事則由十個不同的人講述,翻譯的難處便是如何巧妙的在每個敘事者的風格間轉換,並保有原文的韻味。Rebhorn的譯本沿用了中世紀的用語,保留了作品的時代感,在語意上也保留了原文多變的風格,讓現代讀者也能感受到作品本身的趣味。

About Wayne Rebhorn’s translation

“The Decameron has had numerous English translations, most of them bowdlerized or reliant on corrupt texts. The challenge is to move gracefully between the widely varying idioms employed for different tales and Rebhorn is notably successful in handling this, avoiding both an excess of slack colloquialism and the pish-tush-forsooth faux-antique of earlier renderings. The achievement genuinely honors its original.”

―JONATHAN KEATES, The Telegraph

 
作者介紹
​Giovanni Boccaccio; 16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Born in the town of Certaldo, he became so well known as a writer that he was sometimes simply known as "the Certaldese" and one of the most important figures in the European literary panorama of the fourteenth century. Some scholars (including Vittore Branca) define him as the greatest European prose writer of his time, a versatile writer who amalgamated different literary trends and genres, making them converge in original works, thanks to a creative activity exercised under the banner of experimentalism.
 
Wayne A. Rebhorn is the Celanese Centennial Professor of English at the University of Texas, where he teaches English, Italian, and comparative literature. His translation of Boccaccio’s Decameron won the 2014 PEN Center USA’s Literary Award for Translation.