Rainer Maria Rilke

"O poeta mais atual e permanente do nosso tempo." Otto Maria Carpeaux Paris, fevereiro de 1903. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) recebe uma carta de um jovem chamado Franz Kappus, que aspira tornar-se poeta e que pede conselhos ao já famoso escritor. Tal missiva dá início a uma troca de correspondência na qual Rilke …

«Do ponto de vista da História Literária, a inovação essencial das Anotações reside no seguinte: ao escrever um romance que já não é realista, mas sim simbolista e centrado na consciência, Rilke afasta-se decisivamente do padrão biográfico do género romanesco e do romance de personagem com base na evolução psicológica …

Named after the Castle of Duino on a rocky headland of the Adriatic, the "Duino Elegies" speak in a voice that is both intimate and majestic on the mysteries of human life and our attempt, in the words of the translator, "to use our self-consciousness to some advantage: to transcend, through art and the imagination, …

The Sonnets to Orpheus are a cycle of 55 sonnets written in 1922 by the Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke. It was first published the following year. Rilke, who is "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets," wrote the cycle in a period of three weeks experiencing what he …

The Book of Images is a collection of poetry by the Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist Rainer Maria Rilke. It was first published in 1902 by Axel Juncker Verlag. It consists of individual poems written from 1899 and forward. An extended version was published in 1906, after Rilke had written The Book of Hours, with …