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Translating Neruda The Way to Macchu Picchu (1980) John Felstiner Hardcover Good

John Felstiner

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Stanford University Press, 1980. Cloth bound hardcover with mylar-protected dust jacket of Translating Neruda: The Way to Macchu Picchu by John Felstiner.

From the front flap: "Taking as a text Pablo Neruda's brilliant prophetic sequence Alturas de Macchu Picchu (1945), the author here re-creates the entire process of translation, from his first encounter with the poem to the last shaping of a phrase that may never come right in English. This many-faceted book forms an essay on the theory and practice of literary translation, a study of Neruda's career through 1945, and an interpretation of his major poem..."

Good condition. Light spotting to the top of the page block. Dust jacket protected in mylar. Crisp copy with clean pages and light shelf wear.