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Duino Elegies Paperback – June 17, 2006

by Rainer Maria Rilke (Author), David Young (Translator)

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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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June 17, 2006
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Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), the author of Sonnets to Orpheus, Duino Elegies, and Letters to a Young Poet, was one of the greatest poets of the German language.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; Bilingual edition (June 17, 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 204 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393328848
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393328844
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.4 x 0.6 x 8 inches

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Ray A Burleigh

The poetry of a unique man who loved life, lived alone, but was welcomed everywhere he went.

Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2021

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Unusual language, unusual ideas. The book forces you to rethink many of your own ideas.

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Guillermo Maynez

All Angels are terrible

Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2011

The "Duino Elegies" were composed during ten years by Rilke, a man of profound sensibility who, in spite of being a recluse by vocation, had many friends. All known testimonies picture him as a kind and generous man. These, his most famous poems, have an extraordinary beauty: taking as starting point the figure of Angels ("All Angels are terrible"), he reflects on love, the intensity and difficulty of lovers' relationships, youth and its slow descent into old age and death, the life of human beings, trees, flowers; identity and its changing forms in consciousness. As its name indicates, it is a melancholy work, but not desperate. Poetry flows in a spiral, returnin time and again to its central themes, with flights towards extasis and descents into resignation ebfore death and incommunication. Here you can appreciate the magisterial lyricism of this great German poet, born in Prague.

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hjm_50

horrid translation

Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2013

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I haven't read other translations of the Elegies so I can't compare, but this one was so frustrating I've already given it away. I was looking forward to having the original German printed side-by-side to study it, but what this revealed pretty quickly was how much of the original nuance and meter was lost in the contortion to colloquial American English. Young also broke up Rilke's complex, prose-like text into triadic lines, as if American readers needed smaller pieces to chew on. Perhaps. But I hated it. Between the colloquialisms and the line breaks, it came across to me as awkward and artificial, an effort to dumb-down Rilke's work.

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Thank you!

Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2011

I came to this translation of the Duino Elegies without knowledge of any other and with just a smattering of German. Of Rilke, I knew just a few short lyrics. It was a challenging and disturbing experience and, finally, a very lofty one to traverse the world offered us here. The English, considered on its own, has a wonderful melody not revealed quickly, for the style is subtle and understated. To those who don't know the work, this edition, with the original and the English on facing pages offers a wonderful opportunity to add a masterpiece to their storehouse.

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J. Hill

A thing of beauty

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 24, 2019

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When I first opened this book, I thought I was going to be disappointed because this translation was not in the original metre nor the original rhythms. But having read the introduction and understood what the translator was doing I returned to the text and soon came to be certain that the translation would have delighted Rilke himself. Young translates both the words and the thought in a way that reflects for a more modern audience the beauty of the original. After reading this, indeed, I find other translations staid and dull in comparison. This is indeed a thing of beauty.

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