Lettres de Pline le Jeune, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
Language: English
Published by Forgotten Books, 2018
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- Title
- Lettres de Pline le Jeune, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
- Author
- Pline le Jeune
- Publisher
- Forgotten Books
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- PAP
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0282889949
- ISBN 13
- 9780282889944
- Item weight
- 769 grams
Je n'ai pas dû séparer de la traduction de De Sacy la préface et la vie de Pline, où l'auteur romain est loué avec bonne foi et avec esprit. Homme de bien, habile orateur, écrivain distingué, De Sacy est l'apologiste que Pline lui - même aurait choisi. Osons dire toutefois que, trop préoccupé des vertus et des taleus de son modèle, il lui accorde plus d'éloges que la saine critique n'en peut avouer. Pline n'a pas su se dérober à l'influence de son siècle il a sa part d'un défaut qui se montre, sous des formes diverses, dans la plupart des écrivains du même temps; je veux dire l'affectation du langage et l'abus de l'esprit. Ses lettres n'ont point la naïveté et les heureuses négligences qu'on aime à trouver dans ces sortes d'écri elles manquent de naturel; un soin mal entendu leur a dérobé leur grâce la plus attrayante. Pline a montré un rare talent pour tirer d'une idée tout ce qu'elle contient d'agréable et d'ingénieux; mais il n'a pu éviter la con trainte qui accompagne toujours la recherche et le calcul des effets du style. Il possède la finesse de l'esprit et la fécondité de l'imagination mais on cbemherait en vain dans ses ouvrages l'indépendance et l'abandon du génie. Ce caractère particulier des Lettres de Pline n'ajon tait rien à la difficulté de la traduction. Ce n'est point la subtilité des idées, ce n'est pointle tour antithétique des phrases qu'il est difficile de faire passer dans notre lan gue elle se prête fort complaisamment à la reproduc tion de ces traits déliés qui abondent dans les écrivains du second âge de la littérature romaine. Ils alfoetent d'enfermer beaucoup de sens en peu de mots ils visent à la pensée, et les pensées se traduisent. Les écrivains les plus rebelles aux efforts du traducteur sont ceux qui ont prodigué les mots et les longues phrases car notre langue aime la brneveté, et son génie s'accommode mal de la complication des périodes. C'est ce qui explique pourquoi De Sacy a mieux traduit les Lettres que le Panégyrique. Dans ce dernier ouvrage, le style, plus. Abondant et plus soutenu offrait, avec les mêmes diffi cultés, des difficultés nouvelles que l'écrivain français a rarement surmontées il imite la longueur des phrases latines, sans en reproduire la noblesse et l'harmonie. Les Lettres, au contraire, parmi les défauts qu'on leur impute avec raison ont conservé cependant les traits principaux du genre épistolaire, et particulièrement ce style coupé, vif et rapide, qui s'accorde si bien avec les allures de notre langue. Aussi la traduction que De Sacy nous en a laissée, facile, coulaflte, agréable, a - t - elle été regardée dans tous les temps comme une des plus heu reuses copies des modèles antiques.
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