Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation by William H. Gass

Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation

William H. Gass

264 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction poetry reflective slow-paced
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After nearly a lifetime of reading Rilke in English translation, William H. Gass undertook the task of translating Rilke's writing himself, in order to see if he could, in that way, get closer to the work he so deeply admired. Gass examines the ge...

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