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Duino Elegies: Bilingual English-German Edition, Translated by David Oswald
The Duino Elegies are one of the twentieth century's great works of art. In the space of ten elegies, presented here in a bilingual edition, an impassioned monologue struggles to find an individual answer to what it means to be human in a world torn by modern consciousness. In his introduction, David Oswald writes, Rilke's poetry shows an unusual sensitivity to inner experience and to the symbolic processes of the psyche, two things that are important to me in my work as a Jungian analyst. His carefully crafted language conveys the movements of this otherwise unsayable realm and addresses the issues of finding the proper relationship to it. My goal has been to create a translation that preserves this sensitivity and precision ]
Book Details
- Publisher: Daimon
- Publish Date: Apr 10th, 2012
- Pages: 128
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.50in - 5.50in - 0.60in - 0.55lb
- EAN: 9783856307479
- Categories: • European - German• European - German• Europe - Germany
About the Author
Rainer Maria Rilke was a Bohemian-Austrian poet. He is considered one of the most significant poets in the German language. His haunting images focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety, themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets.
Praise for this book
"Among the English translations of Rilke's Duineser Elegien that I am familiar with, the one by David Oswald seems to me to be the best. Not only does it faithfully reproduce the content of the original poems--something which earlier translations have managed to do--but also, through its closely matching rhythm and its use of an often bold imagery rooted in the spirit of the English language, it conveys their poetic substance as well."
- Prof. Jacob Steiner, President of the International Rilke Society