Author : Rainer Maria Rilke
Release : 2012-07-12
Genre : Travel
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 161/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Rilke in Paris by : Rainer Maria Rilke
Download or read book Rilke in Paris written by Rainer Maria Rilke. This book was released on 2012-07-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. "