The Duino Elegies are one of the twentieth centurys great works of art. In the space of ten elegies, presented here in a bilingual edition, an impassioned monologue struggles to find an individual answer to what it means to be human in a world torn by modern consciousness.
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The Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke was born in 1875 in Prague and died of leukemia in 1926 in Valmont, Switzerland. His "The Notes of Malte Laurids Briggs" (1910) is considered one of the first existentialist novels...
Robert Bly writes: Rainer Maria Rilke's "work reaches an area of psychic abundance that many poets long for." (News of the Universe [San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1980] p. 80.)
The German author Robert Musil writes about Rilke: "This great lyricist did nothing but make the German poem perfect for the first time; he was no pinnacle of the times, he was one of those eminences upon which the destiny of the spirit strides over the times."
Named for the Castle of Duino, on a rocky headland of the Adriatic, the Duino Elegies speaks in a voice that is both intimate and majestic on the mysteries of human life and our attempt, in the words of the translator, 'to use our self-consciousness to some advantage: to transcend, through art and the imagination, our self-deception and our fear.'
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