Duino Elegies
Author : Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 1998
ISBN 10 : 0810116480
Pages : 104 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (81 downloads)
Download Duino Elegies PDF Format Full Free by Rainer Maria Rilke and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.'