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Duino Elegies

Duino Elegies

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Product Code:
2039-01
ISBN
978-619-01-0139-0
SKU
05.0119
Year
20-11-2017
Translation
from German: Plamen Hadjiiski
Pages
136
Size
140/195 мм
Weight
0.42 kg
Collection
Колекция "Тезаурус"
Cover Type
Hardcover
Genre
Poetry, Bilingual & Multilingual

Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875–29 December 1926) — better known as nbsp;Rainer Maria Rilke — was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, “widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets” writing in both verse and highly lyrical prose. Several critics have described Rilke's work as inherently “mystical”. His writings include one novel, severa…

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Poetry. Begun in 1912, interrupted by the Great War, and completed early in 1922, the ten meditations on love and death in Rilke's DUINO ELEGIES are perhaps the twentieth century's most sustained outpouring of lyricism. Abstract, allusive, and rich with imagery, this sequence has been attempted by many translators. 

"Rilke speaks through the translator as through a microphone, with an unprecedented combination of utterly transfixing clarity, propulsive urgency, and emotive concentration. Nowhere else in English-nowhere else-have the Elegies achieved such unrelenting, enveloping intensity. This is a mind- and life-altering book. Much more than a translation, this is a work of total reincarnation."—Malachi Black

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