奥德赛：丹尼尔·门德尔松新译本 The Odyssey：A New Translation by Daniel Mendelsohn

基本信息

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Classics

Publication date ‏ : ‎ 23 April 2026

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Print length ‏ : ‎ 576 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0241733596

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0241733592

Item weight ‏ : ‎ 850 g

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.4 x 3.2 x 23.3 cm

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

“这或许是迄今为止《奥德赛》的译本。”——伊迪丝·霍尔，《每日电讯报》年度好书

“美国当代伟大的古典学者为我们重新诠释了历史上伟大的冒险故事——这部译本节奏明快、流畅自然、扣人心弦，堪称一项令人叹为观止的成就。”——李·查德

畅销书作家兼古典学者丹尼尔·门德尔松的《奥德赛》译本堪称一部意义非凡的新作，受到古典学者和诗人的一致赞誉——其译本足以与E·V·里厄和罗伯特·法格尔斯的译本相媲美。

门德尔松摒弃了许多近期译本所采用的精简和现代化手法，巧妙地保留了这部史诗的韵律、跨行、头韵和元音韵等形式特征，从而恢复了荷马这部巨著的古老恢弘气势。他那气势恢宏的六音步诗句，比其他近期译本更贴近原文，使他能够逐行精准地捕捉荷马的每一行诗句，同时又不失原文的恢弘气势和丰富韵味。

呈现的是英语世界中丰富、精准、具有音乐性的《奥德赛》，它不仅完整地传达了其口头诗歌的韵律，更生动地展现了扣人心弦的冒险故事、深刻的人性洞察以及震撼人心的主题，这些都使得荷马的作品在创作二十八个世纪后依然能够引起人们的共鸣。门德尔松的《奥德赛》译本配有详尽的导言和目前注释，有望成为这部伟大而又令人百读不厌的杰作的英语版本。

入围2026年英希联盟伦西曼奖

'This may be the best translation of The Odyssey yet' Edith Hall, Telegraph, Books of the Year

'History's greatest adventure story brought to us anew by America's greatest living classicist – this is fast, fluent, thrilling, and a hugely impressive accomplishment' Lee Child

With his Odyssey, best-selling author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn has created a momentous new work, hailed by classicists and poets alike – a translation to stand with those of E. V. Rieu and Robert Fagles.

Setting aside the streamlining, modernizing approach of many recent translations, Mendelsohn artfully reproduces the epic’s formal qualities – meter, enjambment, alliteration, assonance – and in so doing restores to Homer’s master work its archaic grandeur. His expansive six-beat line, far closer to the original than that of other recent translations, allows him to capture each of Homer’s verses line for line, without sacrificing the amplitude and shadings of the original.

The result is the richest, most precise, and most musical Odyssey in English, one that fully conveys its oral poetics while bringing to vivid life the gripping adventure, profound human insight and powerful themes that make Homer’s work resonate some twenty-eight centuries after its composition. Supported by an extensive introduction and the fullest notes and commentary currently available, Mendelsohn’s Odyssey is poised to become the authoritative English-language version of this magnificent, endlessly enjoyable masterpiece.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANGLO-HELLENIC LEAGUE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2026

作者简介

丹尼尔·门德尔松（译者）

丹尼尔·门德尔松是一位回忆录作家、评论家、翻译家，也是《纽约客》和《纽约书评》的特约编辑，并经常为这两家杂志撰写文章。他著有十本书，其中包括国际畅销书《失落：寻找六百万中的六位》（荣获美国国家犹太图书奖和美国国家书评人协会奖）以及《奥德赛：一位父亲、一位儿子和一部史诗》（入围贝利·吉福德奖）。他曾荣获法国美第奇奖和意大利授予外国作家的荣誉——马拉帕特奖。2022年，他被法兰西共和国授予艺术与文学骑士勋章。目前，他是巴德学院查尔斯·兰利特·弗林特人文讲席教授。

Daniel Mendelsohn (Translator)

Memoirist, critic, translator, and frequent contributor of essays to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, where he is Editor-at-Large, Daniel Mendelsohn is the author of ten books, including the international bestsellers The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, winner of the National Jewish Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic, which was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize. His honors include the Prix Médicis in France and the Premio Malaparte, Italy’s highest honour for foreign writers. In 2022 he was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Republic of France. He is currently the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard College.