A review by bohdankinal
Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke

challenging reflective sad medium-paced

Short but dense. Probably one of the more (if not most) challenging pieces of literature I’ve read in awhile. I didn’t understand a good deal of it, but the passages that I did were quite beautiful and passionate and melancholy. For some reason made me think of Wings of Desire, but don’t know if that was just because both are German works poetically depicting life/suffering in Romantic fashion or if there’s something deeper.