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This luminous, timely new translation by renowned co-translators Zsuzsanna Ozsváth and Frederick Turner, accompanied by original illustrations, brings Goethe¿s timeless classic to greater heights than ever before in the English language.
About the author
Zsuzsanna Ozsváth is the Leah and Paul Lewis Chair of Holocaust Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas and Director of the Holocaust Studies Program. Ozsváth received her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, and her research focuses on aesthetics and ethics in German, Hungarian, and French literature. In 1992, she received the Milan Fust Prize, Hungary’s most prestigious literary prize, with her co-translator, Frederick Turner, for Foamy Sky: The Major Poems of Miklos Radnoti (Princeton University Press, 1992).
Frederick Turner is Founders Professor of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas. Turner received his B.Litt, a PhD-level terminal degree, from Oxford University, and his research considers poetry, aesthetics, and Shakespeare. He received the prestigious Milan Fust Prize with co-translator Zsuzsanna Ozsváth for Foamy Sky: The Major Poems of Miklos Radnoti (Princeton University Press) in 1992.
Summary
This luminous, timely new translation by renowned co-translators Zsuzsanna Ozsváth and Frederick Turner, accompanied by original illustrations, brings Goethe’s timeless classic to greater heights than ever before in the English language.
Foreword
Select events planned with translators (based in Texas) -Partnership with Goethe Institut in Dallas and nationwide
Serial rights targeting The Paris Review, The White Review, Guernica, Asymptote, Words Without Borders, World Literature Today, and others
Print publicity targeting prominent literary journals and newspaper book sections
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"Ozváth and Turner’s translation gives modern readers a glimpse of what Goethe’s contemporary audience must have felt upon first reading the work. The verse form rhythmically draws us along, singing to us an ancient ballad, while the characters stir our hearts with full-fledged emotions we can recognize in our everyday lives." ––The Arkansas International
