false<![CDATA[Duino Elegies]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170399393m/53111.jpg5311148<B>One of the literary masterpieces of the century, this translation is now presented with facing-page German.</B><BR><BR>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: <I>Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen</I>? (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.20894661987Duino Elegiestotal:656|5:412|4:166|3:69|2:6|1:3|65629468936041falsefalseSun Apr 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008Tue Mar 04 23:19:04 -0800 2008Sat Apr 05 22:19:29 -0700 2008 Having read two translations of Duino Elegies by Stephen Mitchell and Edward Snow, I definitely think that Snow has the first half right while Mitchell the second half. I still have a hard time understanding some of the elegies (3, 5, 6, 10), but the ones I think I understand really...more...]]>
50falsefalseThu Jun 18 22:23:33 -0700 2009Wed May 06 11:06:29 -0700 2009Thu Jun 18 22:23:33 -0700 2009 I thought Stephen Mitchell's translation was the best that could ever possibly exist. I was, happily, totally wrong. I picked this up at a friend's house by chance and was completely absorbed.
The Chrichtons bring out a sort of conversational quality in the writing which ...more...]]>
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