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Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke

philippsburg's review against another edition

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emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

5.0

lukija's review against another edition

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”Te varhain onnistuneet, luomakunnan lemmikit / sen maiseman harjanteet, aamun / ruskottavat huiput - kukkivan jumaluuden siitepöly, / te valon niveltymät, käytävät, portaat, valtaistuimet, / olemustilat, autuuskilvet, sykähdyttävän / tunteen myrskyisät melskeet. Ja yllättäen / jokainen teistä on peili: takaisin kasvoihinne / ammentuu niistä virrannut kauneus.” (Elegiasta kaksi s. 21)

”Et pimeyteen vaan omaan vaikutuspiiriisi / laskit yölampun, ja se loisti kuin ystävyyttä.” (Elegiasta 3 s.33)



2017:
Lukukokemuksena ruumiinjäseniä matkan varrelle pudotteleva. Leivän muruja paluumatkalle. Ja näytän edelleen samalta, mutta jokin tuntuu erilaiselta. Lisäksi neutronien suihku, joka näyttäisi lasinpesunesteen vapautumiselta ihmisen ja hänen tiensä väliselle pinnalle. / Ajattelin myös Pindarosta ja sitä vitutuksen tunnetta tajutessaan, että en koskaan ollut hänen aikalaisensa, jotta minulla olisi läheinen ymmärrys tarvittavista sanoista ja maailmanymmärryksestä. Ja Anja Meski avaa suomennoksen taustoja ansiokkaasti ja luottamusta herättävästi elegiakäännösten lopuksi.

moonshake's review against another edition

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5.0

two thoughts, related- 1. why do people quote the bible so much? 2. why isn't this the bible??????

phsn's review against another edition

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3.0

Read the bilingual edition with a hope that I will understand it better. But I guess Im just not so much a poetry person bcs I don’t understand some part of the book. Need the right time and more brain cells to decipher these poems.

leo_mal's review against another edition

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emotional medium-paced

julianvedeler's review against another edition

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challenging emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

4.5

Will have to revisit these. They are beautiful and thought evoking already on the first read, but I bet there is much more to unravel here.

bibilly's review against another edition

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challenging dark reflective slow-paced
então é assim que pessoas que abominam clássicos se sentem (completamente burras).

howljenkins's review against another edition

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challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

5.0

I bought my copy second hand and its so old it doesnt even have an ISBN so i had to add it manually but its infinitely better than that goddamned mitchell translation and actually has the original german opposite the translation to boot. 

taylorzart's review against another edition

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5.0

I read this with the class RILKING led by Ariana Reines (one of my fave contemporary poets, I highly recommend you check her out). There's a lot of themes here that are always guaranteed to excite me - the razor's edge of divinity and humanity, the power of childhood, anti-capitalism, our relationship to death - and these elegies took those themes and made them feel painfully relevant to this bizarre moment.
The elegies are absolutely full of melancholy, but a melancholy that is not without hope - at least I think so. I read a call to action in the weight of these works. Something about the melancholy here serves as a reminder to live while you're alive. And sometimes that requires a resetting - a perspective that remembers the transcendence of childhood and love and the natural world. And all of it is complex and sometimes it really hurts, but it is our humanity. And dammit, that is something.

mint_renegade's review against another edition

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challenging dark reflective tense slow-paced

4.0

Like being buoyed on a float in the middle of the Pacific while a storm rages on. 

How to read - an elegy a day; read it in your head; then reread it aloud; then read the commentary; then reread the poem.