Michael Hulse's new translation perfectly conveys the unsettling beauty of the original and is accompanied by an introduction on Rilke's life and the biographical and literary influences on the Notebooks. This edition also includes suggested further reading, a chronology and notes.
Michael Hulse has won numerous awards for his poetry, among them
first prizes in the National Poetry Competition and the Bridport
Poetry Competition (twice) as well as the Society of Authors' Eric
Gregory Award and Cholmondeley Award. He has been editor of a
literature classics series and of literary quarterlies, has
scripted news and documentary programmes for Deutsche Welle
television, and has taught at the universities of Erlangen, Eichst
tt, Cologne, Zurich, and currently Warwick. Among over sixty books
he has translated from the German are titles by W. G. Sebald and
Elfriede Jelinek and, for Penguin, Goethe's Sorrows of Young
Werther and Jakob Wassermann's Caspar Hauser.
Rainer Maria Rilke was born in 1875 in Prague. He studied
literature, art history and philosophy in both Munich and Prague,
and is often considered one of the German language's greatest 20th
century poets. His two most famous verse sequences are the Sonnets
to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies; his two most famous prose works
are the Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical The
Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.
"One of the world's most beautiful books."
-"The Philadelphia Inquirer"
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