Contents are spectacular, translation is wanting ~~"The Myth of the Eternal Return: Or, Cosmos and History"

The Myth of the Eternal Return: Or, Cosmos and History

Mircea Eliade
Bollingen
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 Contents are spectacular, translation is wanting, 2002-08-27

I cannot add to any of the other excellent synopses of the contents of this seminal work. The ideas are fascinating and the perspective unique. The concepts under discussion are sophisticated, but elegant, and the work is certainly written for thinking persons who are given to pondering unanswerables.

Here is where I diverge from the other readers' sparkling reviews: this is the most laborious, bombastic, convoluted text, more given to flamboyant language structure--and leaving content to languish under the suffocation of verbiage--than any book I have ever read.

Be prepared for the most archaic of words, the least succinct of summations, and the most roundabout explanations of what are already intricate interrelationships in a complex system. Although I have never seen, nor could read, the original text, the translators do no favors for the reader, and, I fear, a great disservice to Mr. Eliade's intent in the interest of being faithful to the original.

I hope that one day a more accessible translation will be available.

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