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"Stones and Flames: The Complete Poems of Tomas Tranströmer" Author: [Sweden] Tomas Tranströmer Publisher: Nanjing University Press
"Stones and Flames: The Complete Poems of Tomas Tranströmer" Author: [Sweden] Tomas Tranströmer Publisher: Nanjing University Press
Description
Introduction · · · · · ·
★Absorb the mysteries in daily life and reveal the thoughts as icy as snow
★2011 Nobel Prize in Literature winner
★ Highly praised by Heaney, Walcott and Brodsky
★Tranströmer's designated translator Li Li's translation has been completely revised
【Editor's recommendation】
1. Tranström is the winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works enjoy a high reputation worldwide and are highly praised by master poets such as Brodsky, Heaney and Walcott.
2. This book is a complete collection of Tranströmer's poetry, including all the poetry works published in his creative career, representing Tranströmer's lifelong poetry achievements.
3. The translator of this book, Li Li, is the Chinese translator designated by Tranströmer. This version has made a comprehensive revision to the translation, presenting Tranströmer's great poetic art in a more accurate manner.
【Content Introduction】
Tranströmer is good at using various images to establish subtle connections between things that are usually unrelated and create opportunities for encounters. His works are mostly short and concise, using metaphors to shape the individual's inner world and express the poet's extraordinary reflections on daily life and natural experience.
This book includes 13 poetry collections published by the poet since 1954, covering all the poems of Tranströmer's creative career, as well as the author's autobiographical work "Memory Sees Me" written in 1993 and the Nobel Prize in Literature award speech. The translator has made a comprehensive revision of the translation this time, presenting Tranströmer's great poetry art to Chinese readers in a more perfect and accurate manner.
【Celebrity Recommendation】
Tomas Tranströmer's poetry allows us to be at peace with our own uncertainty.
—Seamus Heaney
The most important poet of all, with incredible wisdom… I have stolen more than one metaphor from him.
—Joseph Brodsky
About the Author · · · · · ·
Tomas Tranströmer
(Tomas Tranströmer, 1931-2015)
A famous Swedish poet, Tranström is known as the most outstanding symbolist and surrealist master in contemporary European poetry. In 2011, Tranström won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his concise and penetrating images that open a new path to the truth for us.
About the Translator
Li Li
Poet, translator, photographer. Moved to Sweden in 1988. Has published six Swedish poetry collections including "Eyes in the Water", "The Habitat is You", "Escape", etc., and translated a large number of Nordic poems. Has won poetry awards such as the Swedish Daily Literature Award and the Clock Kingdom Award.