Sonnets to Orpheus

Description

One of the literary masterpieces of the century, this translation is now presented with facing-page German. 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.

• Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Published: 2014-04-24
• Pages: 160
• ISBN-13: 9780393350494