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A review by kyokroon
Fragments by Heraclitus
2.0
I mean, I really like Presocratic philosophy and Heraclitus is great (which is why this has 2 stars instead of one), but I mean... this translation... is just... not really a translation??
Brooks Haxton is really playing fast and loose with the original Greek: often leaving out or adding stuff in (and not just some words to clarify, but mostly to obfusciate the fragment), for some reason presenting the fragments as if they are bad modern poetry and not being clear which fragments he is translating...
Just... not a good translation...
which is sad, because I was enthousiastic about the fact that this collection also had the fragments in original Greek/Latin...
Brooks Haxton is really playing fast and loose with the original Greek: often leaving out or adding stuff in (and not just some words to clarify, but mostly to obfusciate the fragment), for some reason presenting the fragments as if they are bad modern poetry and not being clear which fragments he is translating...
Just... not a good translation...
which is sad, because I was enthousiastic about the fact that this collection also had the fragments in original Greek/Latin...