The Poetics of Poetics
Explore the art of storytelling with our curated poetics list, featuring Hermann Hesse's *The Glass Bead Game* and William H. Gass's *Reading Rilke*—essential books on literary craft and translation.
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Reading Rilke Reflections On The Problems Of Translations
by William H. Gass
The greatly esteemed essayist, novelist, and philosopher reflects on the art of translation and on rainer maria rilke's duino elegies-and gives us his own translation of Rilke's masterwork.
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The Glass Bead Game
by Hermann Hesse
Setting his story in the distant, post-Holocaust future, Hesse tells of an elite cult of intellectuals occupying themselves with an elaborate game that employs all the cultural and scientific knowledge of the ages. The most imaginative and prophetic of Hesse's works.
