A Ringing Glass: The Life of Rainer Maria Rilke - Couverture rigide

Prater, Donald A.

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ISBN 10 : 019815755X ISBN 13 : 9780198157557

Editeur : Clarendon Press, 1986

Synopsis

A biography which looks at the life of the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926). Rilke was a lyric poet who, when he travelled to Russia, met Tolstoy and was deeply influenced by Russian pietism. His work is credited with extending the range of expression and sublety of German.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This is a celebrated biography of Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), prehaps the greatest lyric poet of this century. Rilke was born in Prague, but his nomadic existence led him through Germany, Russia, Spain, Italy, and France, until his death in Switzerland from leukaemia. Uniquely, he dedicated himself exclusively to his art while remaining receptive to the most varied influences of European culture. He visited Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana, acted for a time as secretary to Rodin, and was a friend o Romain Rolland, Leonid Pasternak, and Walter Rathenau. He was the protege of Princess Marie van Thurn und Taxis, and the lover of Lou Andreas-Salome and Baladine Klossowska. Yet he was single-minded in his search for the solitude he needed for his work, so much so that he seemed to many of his contemporaries to be a poet remote from the world. His poetic achievement - the New Poems, the Duino Elegies the Sonnets to Orpheus - and in prose the Cornet and the astonishing Malte Laurids Brigge, were works that made a lasting mark on European literature. Drawing on recent documentary evidence, A Ringing Glass is a compelling account of this most complex of lives, showing what manner of man lay behind the achievement of the work, and the part that work in turn played in Rilke's life.

Revue de presse

`it is splendid and not a moment too soon to have a readable, civilized biography in English' Financial Times

`the most detailed, most fully documented and indeed the best biography we have (of Rilke)... in any language.' Observer

`a fine, dignified, and scholarly book ... a rarely balanced and substantial account.' Guardian

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Clarendon Press
• Date d'édition: 1986
• ISBN 10: 019815755X
• ISBN 13: 9780198157557
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 488
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible