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Where Silence Reigns
Contributor(s): Rilke, Rainer Maria (Author), Houston, G. Craig (Translator)

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 ISBN: 0811206971     ISBN-13: 9780811206976
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
OUR PRICE: $15.15  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 1978
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Poetry
- Art | Criticism & Theory
- Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century
Dewey: 838.912
LCCN: 00000000
Age Level: 12-22
Grade Level: 7-17
Series: New Directions Paperbook
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.2" W x 7.92" L (0.39 lbs) 164 pages
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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.

Contributor Bio(s): Houston, G. Craig: - G. Craig Houston is the translator of several important works by Rilke.Rilke, Rainer Maria: - RAINER MARIA RILKE (1875-1926) is one of the greatest poets who ever wrote in the German language. His most famous works are Sonnets to Orpheus, The Duino Elegies, Letters to a Young Poet, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, and The Book of Hours.
 
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