Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation

William H. Gass

ISBN 10: 0375403124 / ISBN 13: 9780375403125

Verlag: Alfred A Knopf, 1999

Reflections on the Problems of Translation - Nearly a lifetime of reading Rilke precedes this reflection on the art of translation & Gass's own translation of Rilke's Duino Elegies, poems which as a group form a sublime poeticachievement. Gass examines the genesis of the ideas that inform the Elegies & discusses previous translations. 256p. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1316189

Inhaltsangabe:

The renowned essayinst, philosopher, and novelist presents a close-up study and rendering of Rainer Maria Rilke's poetic masterpiece Duino Elegies as he reflects on the art of translating a work from another language while maintaining the true essence of the original. 15,000 first printing.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: William H. Gass was born in Fargo, North Dakota, in 1924. He has been the recipient of grants from the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations, as well as the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction, the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Medal of Merit for Fiction, the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism (1985 and 1996). He has also won the Pushcart Prize (1976, 1983, 1987, 1992), and his work has appeared four times in <b>Best American Short Stories</b>. He lives in St. Louis, where he is the director of the International Writers' Center.

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Titel: Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems ...
Verlag: Alfred A Knopf
Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good