Description: On the centennial of the first appearance (1923) of Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus, award-winning translator Mark Burrows reveals their depth and meaning with a brilliant new introduction and translation. This new translation captures the lyric beauty of Rilke's poems, honoring their syntactic peculiarities and grammatical complexities as few translators have dared to do. Burrows' versions maintain the essential strangeness of language and abruptness of metaphor by which the sonnets attain their distinctive character in German. Burrows' approach replicates what one reviewer describes as the poems' "dazzling obscurity," refusing to resolve the deliberate difficulties Rilke's formulations present. The effect invites readers to linger with these sonnets, allowing themselves to be shaped in their encounter with them.
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Book Title: Sonnets to Orpheus : a New Translation (Bilingual Edition)
Number of Pages: 190 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Monkfish Book Publishing Company
Item Height: 0.5 in
Topic: European / German, Mysticism, Subjects & Themes / Inspirational & Religious, General
Publication Year: 2024
Genre: Literary Criticism, Religion, Poetry
Type: Bilingual
Item Weight: 9.5 Oz
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
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