Reading Rilke Reflections On The Problems Of Translations - Softcover

Gass, William H

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0465026222 ISBN 13: 9780465026227

Publisher: Basic Books, 2000

Synopsis

The greatly esteemed essayist, novelist, and philosopher reflects on the art of translation and on rainer maria rilke's duino elegies-and gives us his own translation of Rilke's masterwork.

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admired essayist, novelist, and philosopher, author of Cartesian Sonata, Finding a Form, and The Tunnel, reflects on the art of translation and on Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies -- and gives us his own translation of Rilke's masterwork.

After nearly a lifetime of reading Rilke in English, William Gass undertook the task of translating Rilke's writing in order to see if he could, in that way, get closer to the work he so deeply admired. With Gass's own background in philosophy, it seemed natural to begin with the Duino Elegies, the poems in which Rilke's ideas are most fully expressed and which as a group are important not only as one of the supreme poetic achievements of the West but also because of the way in which they came to be written -- in a storm of inspiration.

Gass examines the genesis of the ideas that inform the Elegies and discusses previous translations. He writes, as well, about R

About the Author:

William Gass is the author of five books of fiction and five books of essays. He lives in St. Louis, Missouri.

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0465026222
• ISBN 13: 9780465026227
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272