Title: Great originals; Ugly, dead translations
Product review: Angelica, another reviewer speaks for me as well: while I loved Pablo's original words in this collection, it was anguishing to read these "translations," as they are more adaptations then anything else, and all of the original beauty and crystal poetic craft is lost.Yes ANGUISHING. The translator has molested Neruda's work, and smeared it with his ego. Why presses pay self-inflated bunglers to translate literary treasures defies me.Buy The Essential Neruda instead--those translators obviously care about honest, faithful transmission, which is not the case here.
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