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Sonnets to Orpheus

Sonnets to Orpheus

Rilke, Rainer Maria
Marks, Christiane

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Literary Fiction

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ISBN10: 194883006X
ISBN13: 9781948830065
Publisher: Open Letter Books
Published: Dec 10 2019
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.60 Width: 4.50 Depth: 7.10
Language: English
Rainer Maria Rilke's fifty-five Sonnets to Orpheus were written over a few days in an astonishing burst of inspiration. Described by Rilke himself as a spontaneous inner dictation, the sequence is among the most famous works of modernist literature, and Christiane Marks's fresh new translations succeed in evoking Rilke's music--often sacrificed in translation--opening a new window on these poems, for old and new Rilke lovers alike. The result of nearly two decades of memorization, research, and fine-tuning, Marks's translations, only the second by a woman and the first by a native German speaker, recapture Rilke's astonishingly contemporary, often colloquial style.

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