Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #98640 in Books
• Published on: 1999-04-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 125 pages

Synopsis
Ursula LeGuin, best know for her sci-fi novels, has studied the Tao Te Ching for more than 40 years. Included in this translation are LeGuin's own personal commentary and notes.

Customer Reviews

too much!
I'll be the first to admit my admiration for Le Guin as a writer and a person. But there is zero justification for this new interpolation. Like Mitchell's "New English Version," it further trivializes Taoism in order to make the Tao Te Ching more palatable to the (New Age) masses. The worst part is that Le Guin's and Mitchell's versions are gaining a bigger and bigger foothold in the market of TTC translations. One wonders how many people have absorbed this stuff and called themselves "Taoists" afterwards. I shudder to consider it.

A-1 INTERPRETATION RATHER THAN TRANSLATION
THIS VERSION COMES ALIVE TO THE READER.

IT IS MADE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY.

AFTER STUDYING GIA-FU-FENG, BRIAN WALKER, TAM C. GIBBS and THOMAS CLEARY, I FOUND THIS VERSION TO BE NOT ONLY REFRESHING BUT PROBABLY THE BEST ACCESS TO THE TAO EVER AVAILABLE.

THIS IS NOT A TRANSLATION LIKE THE OTHERS, BUT AN INTERPRETATION BY ONE OF THE GREAT IMAGINATORS OF OUR PERIOD.

URSULA K. LE GUIN HAS ECLIPSED HERSELF IN THIS BODY OF WORK.

I HOPE THAT AFTER ONE READS THIS, THEY INVESTIGATE HER PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED GENIUS (like THE LATHE OF HEAVEN)...

DAVID BECHTA

Here is the fierce and compassionate voice of the Mother.
It's funny and delightful and radiant and nuturing too. I was in awe of this contemporary text until I heard the audio tape with LeGuin and Barton. That left me speechless. What a gift!