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Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation

The greatly esteemed essayist, novelist, and philosopher reflects on the art of translation and on rainer maria rilke's duino elegies-and gives us his own translation of Rilke's masterwork.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 272 pages

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