ABSTRACT
The most famous modern transposing of the myth that gives voice to Eurydice is that of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, who ‘transfers its interpretive key from Orpheus himself to Eurydice.’ 1 Actually, in ‘Orpheus, Eurydice, Hermes,’ she pronounces a single word; or rather, a question: ‘who?’ The fatal monosyllable is nonetheless crucial in the context.
