Duino Elegies (A Bilingual Edition) - Softcover

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393328848 ISBN 13: 9780393328844

Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

One of the literary masterpieces of the century, this translation is now presented with facing-page German. We have a marvelous, almost legendary, image of the circumstances in which the composition of this great poem began. Rilke was staying at a castle (Duino) on the sea near Trieste. One morning he walked out on the battlements and climbed down to where the rocks dropped sharply to the sea. From out of the wind, which was blowing with great force, Rilke seemed to hear a voice: Wer, wenn ich schriee, horte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen (If I cried out, who would hear me up there, among the angelic orders) He wrote these words, the opening of the first Duino Elegy, in his notebook, then went inside to continue what was to be his major work and one of the literary masterpieces of the century.

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Rainer Maria Rilke (December 4, 1875-December 29, 1926) was an Austrian poet and writer. Known for his lyrically potent work, he combined subjective mysticism with precise observation of the objective world. At the time of his death, Rilke's work was incredibly admired by certain circles of European artists, but mostly unknown to the public. Since then, his popularity has grown steadily, and he has come to be universally regarded as a master of verse.

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• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0393328848
• ISBN 13: 9780393328844
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 204
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