Arthur Waley: diferenças entre revisões

 

Waley tornou-se Assistant Keeper of Oriental Prints and Manuscripts (Curador Assistente de Impressos e Manuscritos Orientais) do [[Museu Britânico]] em 1913. Durante esta época ele aprendeu sozinho [[Língua chinesa|chinês]] e [[Língua japonesa|japonês]], parcialmente para facilitar o catálogo de pinturas da comleção do Museu. Ele abandonou seu emprego em 1929 para devotar-se completamente a seus interesses literários e culturais, embora tenha continuado a lecionar na School of Oriental and African Studies (Escola de Estudos Orientais e Africanos), [[Londres]]. Em 1918, ele conheceu [[Beryl de Zoete]], uma escritora e crítica de dança; eles moraram juntos até a morte dela em 1962. Em 1966, Arthur Waley casou-se com [[Alison Robinson]], a quem conhecera em 1929. Moraram em [[Highgate]] em Londres, e ela tornou-se uma figura familiar no fim de sua vida, vivendo mais de 100 anos.

 

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Noted American poet [[Ezra Pound]] was instrumental in getting Waley's first translations into print in ''[[The Little Review]]''. His view of Waley's early work was mixed, however. As he wrote to [[Margaret Anderson]], the Review's editor, in a letter of July 2, 1917: "Have at last got hold of Waley's translations from [[Po chu I]]. Some of the poems are magnificent. Nearly all the translations marred by his bungling English and defective rhythm... I shall try to buy the best ones, and to get him to remove some of the botched places. (He is stubborn as a donkey, or a ''scholar''.)" Yet Waley, in his Introduction in his translation of ''The Way and its Power'', explains that he was careful to put meaning above style in translations where meaning would be reasonably considered of more importance to the modern Western reader.

 

He died in London and is buried in the renowned [[Highgate Cemetery]].

 

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