Omar’s Game of Chess (about a Persian Quatrain which Borges Admired)
Abstract
In one of his sonnets, Jorge Luis Borges quotes a sententia which he attributes to Omar Khayy?m, but which in fact derives from one of the liberties taken by Edward FitzGerald in his English translation of the Persian’s quatrains. In this study we minutely analyse the meaning of the original quatrain and then proceed to show how FitzGerald’s translation, as well as, to a lesser degree, Nicholas’ French translation, make their weight felt in many translations into Spanish and other European languages. With our study of the transmission of a single quatrain in the West, we particularize and illustrate the problems involved in the transmission and reception of Khayy?m’s poetry in general.
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Poincaré, Henri (1902). La science et l’hypothèse. Paris: Flammarion, 1968.
Schaffner, Kenneth (1972) Nineteenth-Century Aether Theories. Oxford: Pergamon Press.
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Omar’s Game of Chess (about a Persian Quatrain which Borges Admired). (2020). 1616: Anuario de Literatura Comparada, 10, 163-189. https://doi.org/10.14201/1616202010163189
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