Four Huts: Asian Writings on the Simple Life - Couverture souple

Watson, Burton

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1570620016 ISBN 13 : 9781570620010

Editeur : Shambhala Publications Inc, 1994

Synopsis

Book by Watson Burton

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The short works collected in Four Huts give voice to one of the most treasured aesthetic and spiritual ideals of Asia—that of a simple life lived in a simple dwelling. The texts were written between the ninth and the seventeenth centuries and convey each author's underlying sense of the world and what is to be valued in it. Four Huts presents original translations by Burton Watson—one of the most respected translators of Chinese and Japanese literature. The qualities that emerge from these writings are an awareness of impermanence, love of nature, fondness for poetry and music, and an appreciation of the quiet life. Four Huts features eleven brush paintings by artist Stephen Addiss.

Biographie de l'auteur

Burton Watson (1925–2017) taught Chinese and Japanese literature at Columbia, Stanford, and Kyoto universities. He translated many books from Chinese and Japanese, and was one of the most well-known and respected translators in his field.

He received the Gold Medal Award of the Translation Center at Columbia University in 1979, the PEN Translation Prize in both 1982 and 1995. In 2015, he received the prestigious PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation. He died in 2017 in Chiba Prefecture, Japan.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Shambhala Publications Inc
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1570620016
• ISBN 13: 9781570620010
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Addiss Stephen
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Éditeur: Watson Burton
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• Personne responsable: non disponible