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Title: Ca Dao Vietnam : Vietnamese Folk Poety by John Balaban ISBN: 1-55659-186-1 Publisher: Copper Canyon Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: "Chicken Soup for the Soul!"
Comment: Through his translation entitled Ca Dao Viet Nam, John Balaban skillfully brings out the beauty of the Vietnamese folk poetry and offers it to Western readers as a wonderful gift.
As an American who lived in Viet Nam for many years, Balaban has developed the passion for ca dao which is the oral poetry created by ordinary Vietnamese in the countryside. He observes that 'to the Westerners, the most remarkable feature of the Vietnamese language and its poetry is the word tones.' His appreciation of this oral folk tradition derives from the melodic poetic representation passed down through the centuries.
While the task of translation of written work is always difficult, Balaban explains in the introduction of Ca Dao Viet Nam the extraordinary challenge in translating the musical melodies of ca dao. Fortunately, through his poetic adventure, John Balaban magically conveys the charming, lyrical, and humorous characteristics of ca dao Viet Nam into his remarkable English translation.
Amazingly enough, as a non-Vietnamese, Balaban unquestionably captures the spirit of the Vietnamese oral tradition as he discovers that 'the Vietnamese draw upon ca dao as easily and effortlessly as they draw well water.'
A job well-done!
Rating: 1
Summary: Lost in trans.
Comment: I laugh with tears. The author translated words for words perhaps using a dictionary.
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Title: Spring Essence by Ho Xuan Huong, John Balaban ISBN: 1556591489 Publisher: Copper Canyon Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Vietnam: A Traveler's Literary Companion (Travelers' Literary Companions) by John Balaban, Nguyen Qui Duc ISBN: 1883513022 Publisher: Whereabouts Press Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: An Anthology of Vietnamese Poems: From the Eleventh through the Twentieth Centuries by Huynh Sanh Thong, Sanh Thong Huynh, Sanh Huynh ISBN: 0300091001 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Poems of the Masters : China's Classic Anthology of T'ang and Sung Dynasty Verse by Red Pine, Wang Wei, Li Bai, Tu Fu, Wang Po, Ou-yang Hsiu, Su Shi ISBN: 1556591950 Publisher: Copper Canyon Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Langenscheidt's Pocket Dictionary Vietnamese/ English, English, Vietnamese by Langenscheidt Staff, Langenscheidt Publishers ISBN: 1585730599 Publisher: Langenscheidt Publishing Group Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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