Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation by William H. Gass

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Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation

by William H. Gass

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0465026222, Paperback)

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.

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