Description:
Marked by the perpetual use of nightmarish visions of disintegration, death, murder, and natural decay, Georg Trakl's poems bear haunting witness to a world devoid of faith, meaning, and hope
Brief description: Georg Trakl (1887-1914) is commonly seen as the most prominent figure of Austro-German literary Expressionism.
Review Quotes:
It's the tone of a true genius.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
For me the Trakl poem is an object of sublime existence.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
The lofty stance, the cosmic range, and the haunting music of Trakl's poetry now mark him, with Rilke, as perhaps the last great representative of what could be called the sublime tradition in German.
- Herbert Lindenberger