Word: barzun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book business is booming, classical recordings are selling by the stack, and art galleries are thriving. But Columbia University's Dean of Faculties Jacques Barzun gloomily contends that, in fact, the age is witnessing an end to Art. Says Barzun, writing in the British monthly Encounter: "The Romantic worship of art, having lost its purpose, heads towards self-extinction. The nations of the West now resemble those tribes that eat their gods to get the good there is in them...
Phaedra and Figaro, translated respectively by Robert Lowell and Jacques Barzun. The fire of Racine's tragedy and the froth of Beaumarchais' farce evoked with sense and sensitivity...
Phaedra and Figaro, translated respectively by Robert Lowell and Jacques Barzun. The full-bodied red wine of Racine and the light, frivolous white of Beaumarchais, distinctively poured for discriminating palates...
Phaedra and Figaro, translated by Robert Lowell and Jacques Barzun. Two dramas of sexuality, one tragic and one comic, rendered with a skill that does justice to the fiery poetry of Racine and the bubbling word play of Beaumarchais...
Translating classics is a little like skywriting. The effort is high-flown, and the blurs are dramatically visible. Remarkably blurless are two new translations: one, a tragedy, Racine's Phaedra, done by Robert Lowell; the other, a comedy, Beaumarchais' Figaro's Marriage, by Jacques Barzun. Coming after Robert Fitzgerald's superior modern rendering of The Odyssey (TIME, April 14), they suggest a boomlet in good translations...