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Title: Ahead of All Parting : The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke (Modern Library (Hardcover)) by RAINER MARIA RILKE, STEPHEN MITCHELL ISBN: 0-679-60161-9 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.64 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This collection is more comprehensive
Comment: I just thought I would clarify that this collection is more comprehensive than The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, also translated by Stephen Mitchell. Ahead of All Parting includes all poems in the aforementioned book and adds many more.
Rating: 5
Summary: eloquent and thought provoking
Comment: ahead of all parting is a book that i treasure above all others. after reading a friends copy, i immediately ran to the bookstore that same night, and paid full price for it. something i rarely do, by the way. rilke is one of the most eloquent and beautiful writers that i know of. his poetry is some of the most thought provoking and uplifting that i have ever read. he saw things and felt things differently than the average person, and in turn used that to build his poetry and prose. mitchell is the best english translator for rilke's work, it's not perfect, but it's not bad. i have nothing but praise for rainer maria rilke. for all poetry lovers out there, i definately recommend you pick up a copy of this book, you will not regret it.
Rating: 3
Summary: Suspicious Translation
Comment: The three stars I give this book are more for Rilke than for his rather poor translator.
I first became suspicious of Stephen Mitchell when I noticed some rather careless mistakes in this book (for instance, translating the German word for Moon into sun).
But I was no longer suprised by these flaws when I noticed some other works that Mitchell has translated:
the Bhagavad-Gita
The Book of Job
The Gospel
The Tao-Te-Ching
I suppose it is theoretically possible for there to exist an individual that is so immensely talented with languages that he is capable of translating adequately texts from Sanskrit, Hebrew, Ancient Greek, Classical Chinese, and German.... But I don't think Mitchell is that individual.
That being said, the poetics of the translation are very nice and the poems to feel pretty close to Rilke. However, to do this (whom I consider the most profound poet to ever take up a pen) author justice, I am just going to have to learn German for myself
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Title: Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, M.D. Herter Norton ISBN: 0393310396 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 2004 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations by Rainer Maria Rilke, John J.L. Mood, John J. L. Mood ISBN: 0393310981 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 2004 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Book of Images by Rainer Maria Rilke, Edward Snow ISBN: 086547477X Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1994 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke by RAINER MARIA RILKE, STEPHEN MITCHELL ISBN: 0679722017 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 13 March, 1989 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: You Alone Are Real to Me : Remembering Rainer Maria Rilke (American Readers Series) by Lou Andreas-Salome, Angela von der Lippe ISBN: 1929918321 Publisher: "BOA Editions, Ltd." Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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