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Title: The Book of Hours: Prayers to a Lowly God (European Poetry Classics) by Rainer Maria Rilke, Annemarie S. Kidder ISBN: 0810118882 Publisher: Northwestern University Press Pub. Date: December, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3
Rating: 3
Summary: Nice to have a new, complete translation however...
Comment: why not give a more careful (more direct) translation of this great work? This version is certainly a much better reading than the disastrous attempt by Anita Barrows. But why rewrite and interpret what is clear. Some examples from the first page: the beautiful passage, "I live my life in expanding (growing) circles" has a phrase "Ich weiss noch nicht" very easy to translate as "I know not yet" or "I don't yet know" here it is translated as "yet unclear of my role" (which is interpretation, which the reader would have seen, and it misses the direct beauty of Rilke's style). And "um den uralten Turm" is translated "around the tower of old", which is not bad but isn't "around the ancient tower." more direct and poetic? And the wonderous conclusion of the passage is "bin ich ein Falke, ein Sturm oder ein grosser Gesang" which is translated as "be it falcon or storm or another (?) magnificent song" instead of the direct "am I a falcon, a storm, or a great song".
Another example in this paragraph is "Ich kreise um Gott....und ich kreise jahrtausendelang" this passage poetically uses the word "kreise" twice to create a symmetry "I circle around God.... and I circle (for) thousands of years" instead it is translated "I circle around God... and I spin amidst thousands of years"
So for the paragraph we have "I circle around God, around the tower of old, and I spin amidst thousands of years; yet unclear of my role, be it falcon or storm or another magnificent song." instead of "I circle around God, around the ancient tower, and I circle for thousands of years; and I know not yet, am I a falcon, a storm, or a great song." What do you think? Well in any case, I do recommend this translation as the best available, but hope another will appear in the near future or this one will be revised. OK, maybe 3.5 stars.
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Title: Stories of God by Rainer Maria Rilke, M. D. Norton ISBN: 0393308820 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 1992 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God by Anita Barrows, Joanna R. Macy, Rainer Maria Rilke ISBN: 1573225851 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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Title: Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, M.D. Herter Norton, Franz Xaver Kappus ISBN: 0393310396 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: February, 1994 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: The Book of Images by Rainer Maria Rilke, Edward Snow ISBN: 086547477X Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: June, 1994 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Thomas Merton Encyclopedia by William H. Shannon, Christine M. Bochen, Patrick F. O'Connell ISBN: 1570754268 Publisher: Orbis Books Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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