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Where Silence Reigns

Name: Where Silence Reigns
Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation
SKU: 9780811206976
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Contributors:

Rainer Maria Rilke, G. Craig Houston (Translator)

Publisher:

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Literary Criticism, Art

Book Subcategory:

Poetry, Criticism & Theory, Modern

Book Topic:

19th Century

Series:

New Directions Paperbook

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Release Date:

1978-01-17

ISBN 13:

9780811206976

Weight:

0.39 lbs

Size:

7.92 x 5.20 x 0.60 inches

Pages:

164

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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.

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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