Songs of Life and Hope. Cantos de vida y esperanza

Songs of Life and Hope. Cantos de vida y esperanza. A Bilingual Edition. Rubén Darío.

Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. 232 pp. 

 

“This bilingual edition of Dario’s 1905 masterpiece, Cantos de vida y esperanza, fills a crucial gap in Hispanic and world literature studies. Translators Will Derusha and Alberto Acereda have provided not only elegant translations of Dario’s work into English but also an authoritative version of the original Spanish text. (…) Derusha and Acereda’s translation renders Dario’s themes with meticulous clarity and captures the structural and acoustic dimensions of the poet’s language in all its rhythmic sonority. Their introduction places this singular poet–arguably the greatest to emerge from Latin America in modern literature–and his best and most widely known work in historical and literary context. An extensive glossary offers additionalinformation, explaining terms related to modernismo, Hispanic history, mythological allusions, and artists and writers prominent at the turn of the last century.”