Michael Pursglove (his photo complements the news) completely translated into English Alexander Korotko’s essay about Rainer Maria Rilke “The Grand Master of Absences” (10 chapters). This is the final piece in a series of essays translated by Michael Pursglove about German romantic poets: Hölderlin, Celan, Rilke and the mystical prose writer Kafka.
All these writers became the heroes of the innovative – philosophical literary and poetic essays of Alexander Korotko, also translated into German by Professor Peter Rykhlo, who just after the translation of one of the essay’s chapters about Rilke noted in his letter: “The author presents a new technique of working with a genius metaphor… I have never seen such a skillful mastery of this technique.”
Michael Pursglove, in comparison with other translators of Korotko’s works into English, is the undisputed leader in terms of the number of translations, since he owns not only poetry, but also voluminous prose texts. But his work on the essay is distinguished by a special penetration into the immense world of metaphors by Alexander Korotko, who found for each of the German poets his own methods, his own colors, his own imagery.
* * *The moonlit shore of the sun,a promenade of hallucinationswith the night tidesand the…
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* * * Pre-war summer of booksellers. Time has passed, and a happy life has…
The long, lonely streets of time - manic and tragic with chimes with chimes beating…
* * * Prediction as prayer - white magic rebellion over the madness of black…
Is it possible to know oneself to such depths where the light of knowledge of…