Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation

by William H. Gass

Hardcover, 1999

Status

Available

Call number

831.912

Publication

Knopf (1999), Edition: 1st, Hardcover, 256 pages

Description

"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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Whenever I think of Rilke I hear John Berryman's "Rilke was a jerk" set to the tune of the Sex Pistol's "Belsen Was a Gas"...

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Original publication date

1999

Physical description

256 p.; 8.5 inches

ISBN

0375403124 / 9780375403125
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