Books by Georg Trakl

Inhalt: • Italien (Adolf Friedrich von Schack) • Erinnerung an Italien (Alfred de Musset) • Venedig (Alfred de Musset) • Berliner in Italien (Alfred Henschke) • Deutscher in Italien (Alfred Henschke) • Venedig (Alfred Henschke) • China in Italien (Anastasius Grün) • Venedig (Anastasius Grün) • In Verona (Alfred Meißner) • Nördliches und südliches Italien (August von Platen) • Venedig (August von Platen) • Italien im Frühling (August von Platen) • Venedigs erster Tag (Conrad Ferdinand Meyer) • In Italien (Demetrius Schrutz) • Abendfeier in Venedig (Emanuel Geibel) • Aus Venedig (Emil Peschkau) • Das mittelalterliche Italien (Franz Binhack) • Italien (Franz Grillparzer) • Venedig (Franz von Werner) • Zwar, mein Italien, bleiben, was wir sagen (Francesco Petrarca) • Venedig (Friedrich Hebbel) • Venedig (Friedrich Nietzsche) • Abschied von Italien (Georg Friedrich Treitschke) • In Venedig (Georg Trakl) • An Italien (Giacomo Leopardi) • Italien (Gustav Pfizer) • In Italien (Heinrich Lersch) • Fragment aus Italien (Heinrich Leuthold) • Im Feldspitale zu Verona (Hermann von Gilm zu Rosenegg) • Mein Venedig (Isabelle Kaiser) • Italien (Isolde Kurz) • Das ist Italien, das ich verließ... (J.W. Goethe) • Abschied von Italien (Johann Gottfried Kinkel) • Italien (Josef Huggenberger) • Durst in Venedig (Joseph Victor von Scheffel) • An Italien (Karl Henckell) • Auf die Wiederkunft des Kaisers aus Italien (Karl Mastalier) • Das Amphitheater in Verona (Karl Zettel) • Venedig - VIII. (Moritz Graf von Strachwitz) • Rom und Italien (Paul de Lagarde) • Verona (Paul Heyse) • Venedig (Paul Heyse) • Ancona (Paul Heyse) • Parma (Paul Heyse) • Pisa (Paul Heyse) • Venedig (Rainer Maria Rilke) • Goethes letzte Nacht in Italien (Stefan George) • Sonnenaufgang in Venedig (Stefan Zweig) • Der Traum von Venedig (Theodor Däubler) • Oh Farbenstadt Venedig, dir zu Füßen (Theodor Däubler) • ...

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. A Skeleton Plays Violin comprises the final volume in a trilogy of works by Trakl published by Seagull Books. This selection gathers Trakl's early, middle, and late work, none of it published in book form during his lifetime. The work here ranges widely, from his haunting prose pieces to his darkly beautiful poems documenting the first bloody weeks of World War I on the Eastern Front. Book Three of Our Trakl--the series that began with Trakl's first book Poems and his posthumously published Sebastian Dreaming--also includes translations of unpublished poems and significant variants. Interpolated throughout this comprehensive and chronological selection is a biographical essay that provides more information about Trakl's gifted and troubled life, especially as it relates to his poetry, as well as the necessary context of his relationship with his favorite sibling, his sister Grete, whose role as a muse to her brother is still highly controversial. Trakl's life was mysterious and fascinating, a fact reflected in his work. A Skeleton Plays Violin should not be missed.

Sebastian Dreaming comprises the second book in James Reidel's Our Trakl series. Published posthumously in the original German in 1915, this is the second and last collection prepared by Trakl himself. Indeed, the Austrian poet may have tied his own fate to it. During his last days in a military hospital, Trakl had politely requested proofs of Sebastian Dreaming from his publisher and waited a week before overdosing on cocaine. He had been told once before that the war, which drove him into madness, had indefinitely postponed his masterpiece. Now the wait is over for Trakl's book to appear separately and in English. Until now translations of the poems from this collection have appeared in selections and complete volumes. Reidel has chosen to present the book individually, as Trakl wanted his book experienced. To achieve this, a certain verisimilitude in these English renderings has been achieved--even omitting the German facing texts is at work here--for which the translator has gone to great lengths, with an eye for seeing Trakl in his time and place, not only as an early modern poet but one whose strange and intriguing language and setting came from another century and still haunt us in ours.

Georg Trakl is an Austrian-German expressionist. This translation marks the hundredth anniversary of Trakl's death during the first months of World War I. It introduces readers to the powerful verses of this wartime poet.

For første gang i tyve år er Georg Trakls visionære og indflydelsesrige lyrik igen tilgængelig på dansk, her i Rolf Gjedsteds gendigtning. Den østrigske forfatter Georg Trakl – en af den tysksprogede ekspressionismes betydeligste digtere – skrev i sit korte liv omkring 100 digte, der udkom enkeltvis i avangardetidsskriftet Der Brenner. Først senere kom de i egentlige samlinger. I sine tekster skaber Trakl en særegen visionær verden, hvor farvemættet forfald, hårdhed og voldsomhed står i kontrast til små scener af forløsning og ro. Trakl var ikke kendt i sin samtid, men hans lyrik har haft stor indflydelse på digtere som Ingeborg Bachman og Paul Celan og har inspireret danske digtere som Michael Strunge og Søren Ulrik Thomsen. Sebastian i drømme udkom i foråret 1915, knap et halvt år efter digterens død. Med denne nyudgivelse er Trakls poetiske vision atter tilgængelig for danske læsere. Pressen skriver: "Det kan være svært at få hænderne ned af ren begejstring over forlaget Rosinantes flotte og imponerende klassikerserie. Klaus Mann, Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, Joseph Roth, Stefan Zweig, Virginia Woolf, Emily Brontë, Georges Perec er nogle af de mange forfattere, hvis bedste bøger er udgivet som klassikere. At den bogserie endnu ikke har vundet hæder og priser er helt uforståeligt. Nu udkommer så, ganske vist i et lidt andet format, Georg Trakls Sebastian i drømme i Rolf Gjedsteds gendigtning af et af den tyske ekspressionismes absolutte hovedværker." - Information