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RAINER MARIA RILKE: Dance the Orange: Selected Poems

Translated by Michael Hamburger and edited by Jeremy Mark Robinson This edition has been revised and updated. www.crmoon.com

This new collection includes poems taken from the time of the great German poet's New Poems through the Duino Elegies to the last pieces. These are some of Rainer Maria Rilke's best works; they are intense, compact, lyrical and lucid, by turns erotic, heartfelt and mystical. Hamburger's excellent translations have the German original facing each poem.

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the...

We have a marvelous, almost legendary, image of the circumstances in which the composition of this great poem began. Rilke was staying at a castle (Duino) on the sea near Trieste. One morning he walked out on the battlements and climbed down to where the rocks dropped sharply to the sea. From out of the wind, which was blowing with great force, Rilke seemed to hear a voice: Wer, wenn ich schriee, horte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen? (If I cried out, who would hear me up there, among the angelic orders?). He wrote these words, the opening of the first Duino Elegy, in his notebook, then...

To Rilke himself the Sonnets to Orpheus were "perhaps the most mysterious in the way they came up and entrusted themselves to me, the most enigmatic dictation I have ever held through and achieved; the whole first part was written down in a single breathless act of obedience, between the 2nd and 5th of February, without one word being doubtful or having to be changed." With facing-page German.

Druhý svazek výboru z díla Rainera Marii Rilka (1875–1926) se zaměřuje na jeho rozsáhlou ranou prozaickou tvorbu. Českého čtenáře může v této souvislosti zaujmout, nakolik jsou tyto prózy ještě spojeny s atmosférou a literárním milieu autorovy rodné Prahy. Mezi povídkami a povídkovými skicami, které dokládají nevšední zralost Rilkova literárního talentu, se zároveň objevuje řada unikátních textů, jež byly tiskem německy vydány teprve po roce 1996 a v českém překladu Milana Tvrdíka vycházejí vůbec poprvé. Editorkou vydání je Viera Glosíková.

Rainer Maria Rilke: Briefe an einen jungen Dichter Zehn Briefe, verfasst als Antworten an den jungen Dichter Franz Xaver Kappus zwischen 1903 und 1908. Erstdruck: Leipzig, 1929. Vollstandige Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2016. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: John Singer Sargent, Studie eines jungen Mannes. Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 12 pt."