Buona traduzione, sponsorizzata da Lions Club Bobbio e dall'Associazione Amici di S. Colombano. Sinceramente avrei preferito una stampa più rozza, magari stampata piccola, e la possibilità di confrontare a fronte il testo latino originale. Ahimé, non si tratta di edizione accademica ma di semplice m
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Buona traduzione, sponsorizzata da Lions Club Bobbio e dall'Associazione Amici di S. Colombano. Sinceramente avrei preferito una stampa più rozza, magari stampata piccola, e la possibilità di confrontare a fronte il testo latino originale. Ahimé, non si tratta di edizione accademica ma di semplice memoriale delle passate glorie di Bobbio, con tanto di foto di processione del vescovo di Piacenza/Bobbio e del presidente dell'associazione ad Armagh, in Irlanda. In generale comunque un'opera buona e lodevole, che rispolvera un importante testo medievale di cui, credo, mancava una traduzione in italiano.
I know this is a Classic, like the Iliad, the Odyssey or the Divine Comedy. In order to understand Chinese culture, this is one of the key books, and that's all. But it's really, really difficult to read. Part of the blame shoud probably go to the translation, which is quite poor and uses a modern A
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I know this is a Classic, like the Iliad, the Odyssey or the Divine Comedy. In order to understand Chinese culture, this is one of the key books, and that's all. But it's really, really difficult to read. Part of the blame shoud probably go to the translation, which is quite poor and uses a modern American English that is all but fit to the subject, interspersed with aulic expressions which, standing alone, sound like Renaissance Fair.
It's difficult to define this work: it's not history, because it romanticises several events, and because it doesn't actually try to analyse or explain any historical process. It's not a romance either, since most of it is about random characters doing random actions that usually result in some other random people killed or executed, while nothing really happens in the general economy of the Story. It's more a chronicle, and as such some very beautiful chapters are mixed with pointless records of pointless events, without a minimum attempt to make then interesting through beautiful prose or epic tones. The few notes are all written at the end of book three, making it really a pain to reach them if you are reading book one or two. They are anyway too few, and inadequate to the work. There should also be a list of major characters, helping to set them apart from the mass of random goners in the story.
All in all, after 369 pages read in about 7 months, I give up. If I find a better translation, I might try it again, in a few years, but for now I find the many movies about Three Kingdoms much more effective in transmitting the principles of Chinese culture than this set of books.
In assoluto il mio libro di fiabe preferito da bambino, con storie estremamente stimolanti e varie, provenienti da numerose culture (Antica Grecia, Africa, Giappone... ), il tutto corredato da grandi e splendidi disegni in uno stile "da libro di fiabe".
A book of philosophy and poetry, disguised as a novel, as a poem in prose. To be read a few pages at a time, and then to be meditated upon, and then picked up again. And read on, and taste what is truth and beauty, and discover (or remember) that living might be an exercise of freedom, even freedom
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A book of philosophy and poetry, disguised as a novel, as a poem in prose. To be read a few pages at a time, and then to be meditated upon, and then picked up again. And read on, and taste what is truth and beauty, and discover (or remember) that living might be an exercise of freedom, even freedom from the self. They don't write novels like these anymore, I'm afraid...
Fun book that reads very quickly - it doesn't require too much concentration, in spite of dealing with very complex matters. The authors delineate the main branches of philosophy, their purpose and scope of interest, and the most important schools of thinking associated with them, and they do it in
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Fun book that reads very quickly - it doesn't require too much concentration, in spite of dealing with very complex matters. The authors delineate the main branches of philosophy, their purpose and scope of interest, and the most important schools of thinking associated with them, and they do it in such a funny and simple way that it's difficult not to be captured. This is a brilliant book, hard to put down once started. It's quite incredible to see how many issues of philosophy that take hours to be explained in classes, are actually there in our everyday jokes, and just need synthesis and an easy way to be approached. This is not a book of philosophy, mind me - it is rather an approach to philosophy, a good start to take the challenge in the best way. It is a book for everybody, really, from teenagers to adults who want to learn or remember something about, well, everything and at the same time have a good laugh.
Vita di Colombano e dei suoi discepoli
Buona traduzione, sponsorizzata da Lions Club Bobbio e dall'Associazione Amici di S. Colombano. Sinceramente avrei preferito una stampa più rozza, magari stampata piccola, e la possibilità di confrontare a fronte il testo latino originale. Ahimé, non si tratta di edizione accademica ma di semplice m ... (continue)
Buona traduzione, sponsorizzata da Lions Club Bobbio e dall'Associazione Amici di S. Colombano. Sinceramente avrei preferito una stampa più rozza, magari stampata piccola, e la possibilità di confrontare a fronte il testo latino originale. Ahimé, non si tratta di edizione accademica ma di semplice memoriale delle passate glorie di Bobbio, con tanto di foto di processione del vescovo di Piacenza/Bobbio e del presidente dell'associazione ad Armagh, in Irlanda. In generale comunque un'opera buona e lodevole, che rispolvera un importante testo medievale di cui, credo, mancava una traduzione in italiano.
Three Kingdoms, Volume 1
I know this is a Classic, like the Iliad, the Odyssey or the Divine Comedy. In order to understand Chinese culture, this is one of the key books, and that's all. But it's really, really difficult to read. Part of the blame shoud probably go to the translation, which is quite poor and uses a modern A ... (continue)
I know this is a Classic, like the Iliad, the Odyssey or the Divine Comedy. In order to understand Chinese culture, this is one of the key books, and that's all. But it's really, really difficult to read. Part of the blame shoud probably go to the translation, which is quite poor and uses a modern American English that is all but fit to the subject, interspersed with aulic expressions which, standing alone, sound like Renaissance Fair.
It's difficult to define this work: it's not history, because it romanticises several events, and because it doesn't actually try to analyse or explain any historical process. It's not a romance either, since most of it is about random characters doing random actions that usually result in some other random people killed or executed, while nothing really happens in the general economy of the Story. It's more a chronicle, and as such some very beautiful chapters are mixed with pointless records of pointless events, without a minimum attempt to make then interesting through beautiful prose or epic tones.
The few notes are all written at the end of book three, making it really a pain to reach them if you are reading book one or two. They are anyway too few, and inadequate to the work. There should also be a list of major characters, helping to set them apart from the mass of random goners in the story.
All in all, after 369 pages read in about 7 months, I give up. If I find a better translation, I might try it again, in a few years, but for now I find the many movies about Three Kingdoms much more effective in transmitting the principles of Chinese culture than this set of books.
Storie di animali di tutto il mondo
In assoluto il mio libro di fiabe preferito da bambino, con storie estremamente stimolanti e varie, provenienti da numerose culture (Antica Grecia, Africa, Giappone... ), il tutto corredato da grandi e splendidi disegni in uno stile "da libro di fiabe".
Steppenwolf
A book of philosophy and poetry, disguised as a novel, as a poem in prose. To be read a few pages at a time, and then to be meditated upon, and then picked up again. And read on, and taste what is truth and beauty, and discover (or remember) that living might be an exercise of freedom, even freedom ... (continue)
A book of philosophy and poetry, disguised as a novel, as a poem in prose. To be read a few pages at a time, and then to be meditated upon, and then picked up again. And read on, and taste what is truth and beauty, and discover (or remember) that living might be an exercise of freedom, even freedom from the self. They don't write novels like these anymore, I'm afraid...
Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .
Fun book that reads very quickly - it doesn't require too much concentration, in spite of dealing with very complex matters. The authors delineate the main branches of philosophy, their purpose and scope of interest, and the most important schools of thinking associated with them, and they do it in ... (continue)
Fun book that reads very quickly - it doesn't require too much concentration, in spite of dealing with very complex matters. The authors delineate the main branches of philosophy, their purpose and scope of interest, and the most important schools of thinking associated with them, and they do it in such a funny and simple way that it's difficult not to be captured. This is a brilliant book, hard to put down once started. It's quite incredible to see how many issues of philosophy that take hours to be explained in classes, are actually there in our everyday jokes, and just need synthesis and an easy way to be approached.
This is not a book of philosophy, mind me - it is rather an approach to philosophy, a good start to take the challenge in the best way. It is a book for everybody, really, from teenagers to adults who want to learn or remember something about, well, everything and at the same time have a good laugh.