Poems
book one of our Trakl ; [The German List]
Autor*in: Trakl, Georg
Reihe: The German List
Jahr: 2015
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 97 S.
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- The work of poet Georg Trakl, a leading Austrian-German expressionist, has been praised by many, including his contemporaries Rainer Maria Rilke and Else Lasker-Schüler, as well as his patron Ludwig Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein famously wrote that while he did not truly understand Trakl's poems, they had the tone of a 'truly ingenious person,' which pleased him. This difficulty in understanding Trakl's poems is not unique. Since the first publication of his work in 1913, there has been endless discussion about how the verses should be understood, leading to controversies over the most accurate way to translate them. This new translation, the first book in a three-volume collection of Trakl's work, marks the hundredth anniversary of Trakl's death during the first months of World War I. In a refreshing contrast to previous translated collections of Trakl's work, James Reidel is mindful of how the poet himself wished to be read, emphasizing the order and content of the verses to achieve a musical effect. Trakl's verses were also marked by allegiance to both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a fact which Reidel honors with impressive research into the historicity of the poet's language. Poems sets itself apart as the best translation of Trakl available today and will introduce English readers to the powerful verses of this wartime poet.
Georg Trakl was born in Salzburg, Austria. As a teenager he gravitated towards poetry, incest and drug addiction and published his first work by 1908, the year he went to Vienna to attend pharmacy school and became part of that city's fin-de-siècle cultural life. He enjoyed early success and published his first book in 1913. A year later, however, he died of a cocaine overdose due to battle fatigue and depression from the wartime delay of his second book.
Titelinformationen
Titel: Poems
Reihe: The German List
Autor*in: Trakl, Georg
Übersetzer*in: Reidel, James
Verlag: Seagull Books
ISBN: 9780857423672
Kategorie: Belletristik & Unterhaltung, Lyrik, Gesellschaft & Politik
Dateigröße: 370 KB
Format: PDF
Max. Ausleihdauer: 21 Tage
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