Mihai Eminescu -The Legend of the Evening Star & Selected Poems - (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Poems and prose by Romanian 'national poet' Mihai Eminescu (1850 -1889), considered Europe's last great Romantic poet and celebrated by UNESCO as Year-2000-Poet-of-the-Year. Translator Adrian G. Sahlean is viewed as the poet's premier voice in English.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Poems and prose by Romanian 'national poet' Mihai Eminescu (1850 -1889), considered Europe's last great Romantic poet and celebrated by UNESCO as Year-2000-Poet-of-the-Year. Translator Adrian G. Sahlean is viewed as the poet's premier voice in English, and his rendition of Eminescu's masterpiece "Legenda Luceafarului" (The Legend of the Evening Star) was twice staged off-Broadway in 2005 and 2008. The mirror display of texts in the bilingual volume allows for instant comparison of the original with the English version for those with philological inclination.Revered and celebrated by Romanians the world over, Mihai Eminescu is often described as the essence of the Romanian soul. His work encompassed every genre of poetry as well as prose, fiction and journalism, and helped modernize the literary use of the Romanian language. Eminescu is considered Europe's last great Romantic poet, but his legacy transcends the confines of Romanticism, Western traditions in literature and philosophy, and influences from the Far East; blessed with the touch of genius, his synthesis creates a personal world illuminating the life of man, and the cosmos, in archetypal images of universal appeal.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Adrian G. Sahlean's translations are for the English speaking world a great gift. The words of a poet true to the soul of his people and never sentimental, the beautiful poems in these faithful and inspired translations bring a music not yet heard by our American ears, and an awareness of a culture little known or understood."<em> Terrence Montgomery</em><strong> </strong><em>- Director New York off-Broadway production of "The Evening Star," 2005 and 2008.</em></p>"Like those other great Romantic lyric poets, Pushkin and Heine, Romania's greatest poet, Eminescu, resists translation. But, lo and behold, Adrian G. Sahlean has done the seemingly impossible: he has given us the essence of Eminescu in these remarkably fluent, yet still faithful to the original, English versions." <em>Maurice Edwards - Writer, Former Artistic Director of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra. (2006)</em></p>"...The work accomplished by Adrian G. Sahlean is undoubtedly quite a feat. Some of his solutions seem impossible to surpass. This translation of the 'Evening Star' is a true cultural event which should be welcomed<em>." Nina Cassian - Poet, New York, excerpt from Introduction to "The Legend of the Evening Star", Prospero Press, 1996.</em></p>"Sahlean has chosen the primacy of music. While loyally and almost flawlessly rewriting Eminescu's prosody, this music's accomplished task overcomes the translator. This "untranslatable" poet translates well, in the sense in which the loss of sublimity can be tamed and retained beautifully... Adrian George Sahlean joins the club, en maître..."<em> Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu - Literary Research Review, 2000</em>. </p>"This is truly an incomparable translation of our greatest poet, the best we have in English. I am confident it establishes the gold standard for appreciating Eminescu." <em>Dorian Branea, Director, Romanian Cultural Institute, New York.</em></p><p><br></p><br>
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