Where Silence Reigns

Where Silence Reigns, a sampling from his essays, notebooks, and letters, shows Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), the...
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Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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Where Silence Reigns by Rilke, Rainer Maria

Where Silence Reigns

$38.53

Where Silence Reigns

$38.53
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Where Silence Reigns, a sampling from his essays, notebooks, and letters, shows Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), the pre-eminent modern poet of solitude and inwardness, seeking to reconcile his personal conflict between the claims of life and the claims of art. His subjects are commonplace, seemingly innocuous at times: the encounter between a man and a dog, a collection of dolls, a walk among trees. But always the deceptively simple external phenomenon is seen as the symbol, the catalyst of an intensely felt inner experience. As he confided to his friend Frau Wunderly-Volkart: Oh, how often one longs to speak a few degrees more deeply! My prose... lies deeper... but one gets only a minimal layer further down; one's left with a mere intimation of the kind of speech that may be possible THERE where silence reigns. In addition to occasional pieces and notebook entries, this volume contains selections from the strange and haunting Dream-Book, the lyrical Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke, and the entire Rodin-Book--Rilke's appreciation of the great sculptor whom he had served as secretary.

Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 01/17/1978
Pages: 164
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 7.92h x 5.20w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780811206976

About the Author
Rilke, Rainer Maria: - Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), the author of Sonnets to Orpheus and Letters to a Young Poet, was one of the greatest poets of the German language.Houston, G. Craig: - G. Craig Houston is the translator of several important works by Rilke.

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