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In the space of ten elegies, an impassioned voice struggles to find an answer to what it means to be human in a world torn by modern consciousness.
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Rene Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 29 December 1926), better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was a Bohemian Austrian poet. He is considered one of the most significant poets in the German language. His haunting images focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety: themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets."
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Named for the Castle of Duino, on a rocky headland of the Adriatic, the Duino Elegies speaks in a voice that is both intimate and majestic on the mysteries of human life and our attempt, in the words of the translator, 'to use our self-consciousness to some advantage: to transcend, through art and the imagination, our self-deception and our fear.'
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