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Named after the Castle of Duino on a rocky headland of the Adriatic, the "Duino Elegies" speak in a voice that is both intimate and majestic on the mysteries of human life and our attempt, in the words of the...(more) translator, "to use our self-consciousness to some advantage: to transcend, through art and the imagination, our self-deception and our fear".(less)