Self-Reliance, Translated: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance Translated Into Modern English - Couverture souple

Khan, Adam

 
9780962465611: Self-Reliance, Translated: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance Translated Into Modern English
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0962465615 ISBN 13 : 9780962465611
Editeur : YouMe Works, 2012

Synopsis

This very small book is Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay, Self-Reliance, translated into modern English by me, Adam Khan. When I tell people about translating Emerson, the first thing people always ask me is, “Why would his work need to be ‘translated?’ After all, he lived a fairly short time ago and he spoke English.” I’ve found when I share quotes from Emerson, it becomes clear why a translation might be helpful. For example, this is from the original Self-Reliance: “As soon as he has once acted or spoken with éclat he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now enter into his account. There is no Lethe for this. Ah, that he could pass again into his neutral, godlike independence! Who can thus lose all pledge and, having observed, observe again from the same unaffected, unbiased, unbribable, unaffrighted innocence, must always be formidable, must always engage the poet’s and the man’s regards.” I enjoy Emerson’s prose. But it took some time and I had to look up a few words before I really understood what he was saying in that paragraph. My little "translation" is just something that helps. Hopefully, when you're done, you can go back and read Emerson's original essay and understand it better.

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À propos de l?auteur

Adam Khan is the creator of the web site, youmeworks.com. He also blogs at crushpessimism.com and moodraiser.com, and he's the author of the books, "Self-Help Stuff That Works," "Antivirus For Your Mind," "Cultivating Fire," "Viewfinder," "What Difference Does It Make," and "Principles For Personal Growth" (now being used as a textbook for a college course in San Diego). Adam has been published in Prevention Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Body Bulletin, Your Personal Best Newsletter, Wisdom, Think and Grow Rich Newsletter, the Success Strategies newsletter, and he was a regular columnist for At Your Best (a Rodale Press publication) for seven years where his monthly column was voted the readers’ favorite.

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Éditeur
YouMe Works
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0962465615
ISBN 13 
9780962465611
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
63
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