Rainer Maria Rilke

The Book of Hours (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Snow, Edward

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A gorgeous new translation of one of the strongest inaugural works in twentieth century poetry.

Long hailed as a masterwork of modern German literature, The Book of Hours (1905) marks the origin of Rainer Maria Rilke's distinctive voice and visionwhere clarity of diction meets unexpected imagery and first-person poetry discovers its full lyric possibility. In these audacious poems, a devout but candid speaker addresses an ultimately unknowable deity, passing through love, fear, guilt, anger, bewilderment, loneliness, tenderness, and exaltation in his search for meaning.

In this dual-language edition, Edward Snow, the most trustworthy and exhilarating of Rilke's contemporary translators (Michael Dirda, Washington Post), makes Rilke's achievement accessible as never before in English. Snow retains a striking fidelity to the German text while also conveying the captivating psychological presence that animates Rilke's best poems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781324074977
• Artikelnr.: 68969471

Autorenporträt

Rainer Maria Rilke (18751926), the author of Sonnets to Orpheus, Duino Elegies, and Letters to a Young Poet, was one of the greatest poets of the German language.