Duino Elegies

Rainer Maria Rilke

Named after the Castle of Duino on a rocky headland of the Adriatic, the “Duino Elegies” speak 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”.

status	Copy #1 (2603): in
genre	Literature and Fiction » Poetry
publisher	Carcanet Press
publish date	December 1989
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