Book record
Duino Elegies
Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated from German by Edward Snow
Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated from German by Edward Snow and published by North Point Press, is a book rooted in Germany. Rilke’s elegiac sequence is one of those works that makes inwardness feel architectural, as if grief, angels, animals, childhood, and death were all rooms inside the same impossible house. Snow’s translation gives English-language readers a version that can be read for philosophical pressure without turning the poems into a seminar exercise. It is a difficult book, but not because it is sealed. It asks the reader to sit near awe until awe becomes almost bodily. Its value in the library is not only informational, but atmospheric: it gives readers another way to hear how a language thinks.
- Publisher
- North Point Press
- Language
- German
- Country
- Germany