NOT the "real" english translation of this profound book!
The original Katherine Woods translation of this book is wonderful. This new translation by Richard Howard doesn't come close. Look for the original translation in used book stores or veiw it online. Some things should never be redone. This redo is the literary equivalent of the Michael Bolton version of Percy Sledge's "When a Man Loves a Woman". If, by reading this review, just one person ends up reading the Katherine Woods translation instead of the one by Richard Howard, I will consider the time it took to write it well spent.