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Rilke: The Last Inward Man

Author : Lesley Chamberlain
Publisher : Pushkin Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781782277217

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Rilke: The Last Inward Man by Lesley Chamberlain Pdf

An incisive and intimate account of the life and work of the great poet Rilke, exploring the rich interior world he created in his poetry When Rilke died in 1926, his reputation as a great poet seemed secure. But as the tide of the critical avant-garde turned, he was increasingly dismissed as apolitical, the angels and roses of his poems deemed irrelevant. In Rilke: The Last Inward Man, acclaimed writer Lesley Chamberlain uses this charge as the starting point from which to explore the expansiveness of the inner world Rilke created in his poetry. Weaving together searching insights on Rilke's life, work, and reputation, Chamberlain casts the poet's inwardness as a profound response to a world that seemed to be losing its spirituality. In works of dazzling imagination and rich imagery, Rilke sought to restore value to Western materialism, encouraging not narrow introversion but the cultivation of a new sensibility in a secular world after the death of God.

Arc of Utopia

Author : Lesley Chamberlain
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780238562

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Arc of Utopia by Lesley Chamberlain Pdf

Although Lenin and his fellow revolutionaries never called themselves Utopians—believing strictly in a science of revolution, they considered Utopians to be merely dreamers—they were enormously inspired by the grand humanitarian aims of the French Revolution of 1789. Taking up this French revolutionary agenda and reinforcing it with German philosophy, Russians formed a beautiful vision in which an imaginary theology blended with a premier role for art. Arc of Utopia offers a fresh look at these German philosophical origins of the Russian Revolution. In the book, Lesley Chamberlain explains how influential German philosophers like Kant, Schiller, and Hegel were dazzled by contemporary events in Paris, and how this led a century later to an explosion of art and philosophy in the Russian streets, with a long-repressed people reinventing liberty, equality, and fraternity in their own cultural image. Chamberlain examines how some of the greatest Russian names of the nineteenth-century—from Alexander Herzen to Mikhail Bakunin, Ivan Turgenev to Fyodor Dostoevsky—defined their visions for Russia in relationship to their views on German enthusiasm for revolutionary France. With the centenary of the Russian Revolution approaching, Arc of Utopia is an important and timely revisioning of this tumultuous moment in history.

Rilke in Paris

Author : Rainer Maria Rilke,Maurice Betz
Publisher : Hesperus Press
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781780941165

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Rilke in Paris by Rainer Maria Rilke,Maurice Betz Pdf

In 1902, the young German writer Rainer Maria Rilke travelled to Paris to write a monograph on the sculptor Auguste Rodin. He returned to the city many times over the course of his life, by turns inspired and appalled by the high culture and low society. Paris was a lifelong source of inspiration for Rilke. Perhaps most significantly, the letters he wrote about it formed the basis of his prose masterpiece, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. This volume brings together a new translation of RilkeOCOs essay on poetry, Notes on the Melody of Things, and the first English translation of RilkeOCOs experiences in Paris as observed by his French translator, Maurice Betz. "

Life of a Poet

Author : Ralph Freedman
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0810115433

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Life of a Poet by Ralph Freedman Pdf

In this outstanding biography, Ralph Freedman traces Rilke's extraordinary career by combining detailed accounts of salient episodes from the poet's restless life with an intimate reading of the verse and prose that refract them."

Letters to a Young Poet

Author : Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780486847504

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Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke Pdf

Essential reading for scholars, poetry lovers, and anyone with an interest in Rainer Maria Rilke, German poetry, or the creative impulse, these ten letters of correspondence between Rilke and a young aspiring poet reveal elements from the inner workings of his own poetic identity. The letters coincided with an important stage of his artistic development and readers can trace many of the themes that later emerge in his best works to these messages—Rilke himself stated these letters contained part of his creative genius.

Ahead of All Parting

Author : Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-21
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780804153577

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Ahead of All Parting by Rainer Maria Rilke Pdf

The reputation of Rainer Maria Rilke has grown steadily since his death in 1926; today he is widely considered to be the greatest poet of the twentieth century. This Modern Library edition presents Stephen Mitchell’s acclaimed translations of Rilke, which have won praise for their re-creation of the poet’s rich formal music and depth of thought. “If Rilke had written in English,” Denis Donoghue wrote in The New York Times Book Review, “he would have written in this English.” Ahead of All Parting is an abundant selection of Rilke’s lifework. It contains representative poems from his early collections The Book of Hours and The Book of Pictures; many selections from the revolutionary New Poems, which drew inspiration from Rodin and Cezanne; the hitherto little-known “Requiem for a Friend”; and a generous selection of the late uncollected poems, which constitute some of his finest work. Included too are passages from Rilke’s influential novel, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, and nine of his brilliant uncollected prose pieces. Finally, the book presents the poet’s two greatest masterpieces in their entirety: the Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus. “Rilke’s voice, with its extraordinary combination of formality, power, speed and lightness, can be heard in Mr. Mitchell’s versions more clearly than in any others,” said W. S. Merwin. “His work is masterful.”

You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin

Author : Rachel Corbett
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393245066

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You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin by Rachel Corbett Pdf

Winner of the 2016 Marfield Prize In 1902, Rainer Maria Rilke—then a struggling poet in Germany—went to Paris to research and write a short book about the sculptor Auguste Rodin. The two were almost polar opposites: Rilke in his twenties, delicate and unknown; Rodin in his sixties, carnal and revered. Yet they fell into an instantaneous friendship. Transporting readers to early twentieth-century Paris, Rachel Corbett’s You Must Change Your Life is a vibrant portrait of Rilke and Rodin and their circle, revealing how deeply Rodin’s ideas about art and creativity influenced Rilke’s classic Letters to a Young Poet.

The Beginning of Terror

Author : David Kleinbard
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1995-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780814746677

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The Beginning of Terror by David Kleinbard Pdf

Traces the development of German writer Rilke (1875-1926), emphasizing psychoanalytic themes such as his relationships with his parents and surrogate parents; and how he blamed his illness on his childhood, but turned it to a resource for his art. Draws on his published poetry and novels, and on letters. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Change Your Life

Author : Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher : Pushkin Press Classics
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781782278580

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Change Your Life by Rainer Maria Rilke Pdf

“Crucefix’s translation will have, and keep, a place on my shelves where all the poetry lives.” – Philip Pullman A new selection and translation, by an acclaimed poet, of Rilke’s most essential work – the perfect gift for the poetry lover in your life In dazzling new translations of 142 poems by the acclaimed Martyn Crucefix, Rilke beguiles with fresh insight and mystery. Rainer Maria Rilke developed one of the most singular poetic styles of the twentieth century. Visionary yet always anchored in the real world, his poems give profound expression to fundamental questions of love and death, of the chaos of the modern world as well as the spiritual consolation of art and nature. Change Your Life draws from across Rilke’s career to offer a comprehensive view of his most essential poetry, featuring major selections from the great Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus alongside less frequently anthologised work.

Nietzsche in Turin

Author : Lesley Chamberlain
Publisher : Pushkin Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781911590460

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Nietzsche in Turin by Lesley Chamberlain Pdf

Beautifully packaged reissue of the vividly lyrical biography of Nietzsche that John Banville called 'a major intellectual event' In 1888, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche moved to Turin. This would be the year in which he wrote three of his greatest works: Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, and Ecce Homo; it would also be his last year of writing. He suffered a debilitating nervous breakdown in the first days of the following year. In this probing, elegant biography of that pivotal year, Lesley Chamberlain undoes popular clichés and misconceptions about Nietzsche by offering a deeply complex approach to his character and work. Focusing as much on Nietzsche's daily habits, anxieties and insecurities as on the development of his philosophy, Nietzsche in Turin offers a uniquely lively portrait of the great thinker, and of the furiously productive days that preceded his decline.

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

Author : Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307787767

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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke Pdf

This is the definitive, widely acclaimed translation of the major prose work of one of our century's greatest poets -- "a masterpiece like no other" (Elizabeth Hardwick) -- Rilke's only novel, extraordinary for its structural uniqueness and purity of language. First published in 1910, it has proven to be one of the most influential and enduring works of fiction of our century. Malte Laurids Brigge is a young Danish nobleman and poet living in Paris. Obsessed with death and with the reality that lurks behind appearances, Brigge muses on his family and their history and on the teeming, alien life of the city. Many of the themes and images that occur in Rilke's poetry can also be found in the novel, prefiguring the modernist movement in its self-awareness and imagistic immediacy.

Days in the Caucasus

Author : Banine
Publisher : Pushkin Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781782274889

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Days in the Caucasus by Banine Pdf

A scintillatingly witty memoir telling the story of a young woman's determined struggle for freedom This is the unforgettable memoir of an 'odd, rich, exotic' childhood, of growing up in Azerbaijan in the turbulent early twentieth century, caught between East and West, tradition and modernity. Banine remembers her luxurious home, with endless feasts of sweets and fruit; her beloved, flaxen-haired German governess; her imperious, swearing, strict Muslim grandmother; her bickering, poker-playing, chain-smoking relatives. She recalls how the Bolsheviks came, and they lost everything. How, amid revolution and bloodshed, she fell passionately in love, only to be forced into marriage with a man she loathed- until the chance of escape arrived.

The Secret Artist

Author : Lesley Chamberlain
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781609800116

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The Secret Artist by Lesley Chamberlain Pdf

Widely acclaimed for giving "an understanding of the connection between Nietzsche’s personal experience and his most famous ideas" (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times) in her biography of Nietzsche, Nietzsche in Turin, Chamberlain now renders a similar service to readers of Freud. In this book, part biography, part literary criticism, she takes the reader into the mind of Freud, toward a better understanding of the thinker, his work, and art itself. The very idea of the subconcious as a constant, active presence in our daily lives was Freud’s greatest contribution and has allowed generations of people to experience their lives more deeply. His rigorous exploration of the dynamism and structures of the subconscious, Chamberlain argues, was in itself an important work of art. Using Freud’s own writing on art and the aesthetic theories of thinkers ranging from Nietzsche to Lionel Trilling, Chamberlain examines Freud’s art and shows how his imaginative creations have revolutionized not only mental health, but our thinking about art in general, by opening up the individual subconscious as a subject. In elegant, accessible prose she describes how "Freud split the aesthetic atom, releasing a vast energy for individual creativity."

Letters to a Young Poet

Author : Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780834843677

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Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke Pdf

A fresh perspective on a beloved classic by acclaimed translators Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy. German poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s (1875–1926) Letters to a Young Poet has been treasured by readers for nearly a century. Rilke’s personal reflections on the vocation of writing and the experience of living urge an aspiring poet to look inward, while also offering sage wisdom on further issues including gender, solitude, and romantic love. Barrows and Macy’s translation extends this compilation of timeless advice and wisdom to a fresh generation of readers. With a new introduction and commentary, this edition places the letters in the context of today’s world and the unique challenges we face when seeking authenticity.

A Year with Rilke

Author : Anita Barrows,Joanna Macy
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780061986956

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A Year with Rilke by Anita Barrows,Joanna Macy Pdf

One of the most beloved poets of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke is widely celebrated for his depth of insight and timeless relevance. He has influenced generations of writers with his classic Letters to a Young Poet, and his reflections on the divine and our place in the world are disarmingly profound. A Year with Rilke provides the first ever reading from Rilke for every day of the year, including selections from his luminous poetry, his piercing prose, and his intimate letters and journals. Rilke is a trusted guide amid the bustle of our daily experience, reflecting on such themes as impermanence, the beauty of creation, the voice of God, and the importance of solitude. With new translations from the editors, whose acclaimed translation of Rilke's The Book of Hours won an ardent readership, this collection reveals the depth and breadth of Rilke's acclaimed work.