Rainer Maria Rilke

A groundbreaking masterpiece of early European modernism originally published in 1910. The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge unspools the vivid reflections of the titular young Danish nobleman and poet. From his Paris garret, Brigge records his encounters with the city and its outcasts, muses on his family history, and lays bare his earliest experiences of fear, tenderness, and desolation. With a poet's feel for language and a keen instinct for storytelling,...

Breathing, you invisible poem! World-space in pure continuous interchange with my own being. Equipose in which I rhythmically transpire. Written only four years before Rilke's death, this sequence of sonnets, varied in form yet consistently structured, stands as the poet's final masterwork. In these meditations on the constant flux of our world and the ephemerality of experience, Rilke envisions death not only as one among many of life's transformations...

Heredero de los preceptos de la Antigüedad y de Bernini, Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917) recibió una innegable influencia de Miguel Ángel, en particular, por su obra Los esclavos. Y como Miguel Ángel, Rodin gozó de fama y fortuna (doctor honoris causa y miembro de la Legión de Honor, entre otras), aunque ciertos escándalos y controversias mancharon su reputación: sus esculturas de Víctor Hugo y de Balzac fueron rechazadas y El beso fue considerada...

Tout à la fois influencé par les maîtres de l'Antiquité, le génie de Michel-Ange et la sculpture baroque, Auguste Rodin est l'un des artistes les plus reconnus de l'histoire. Bien qu'il soit considéré comme l'un des fondateurs de la sculpture moderne, Rodin n'a jamais critiqué la tradition classique. Nombre de ses sculptures furent critiquées et controversées en raison de leur sensualité ou de leur réalité crue. Ses œuvres les plus originales...

En 1903, un poète de vingt ans, Franz Xaver Kappus, alors étudiant à l'Académie militaire de Wiener-Neustadt, décide d'envoyer à Rainer-Maria Rilke, ses premiers essais poétiques accompagnés d'une lettre dans laquelle il lui avoue douter de sa vocation. Il ne pouvait espérer plus belle écoute et plus juste accueil à ses incertitudes. Pendant 5 ans, de 1903 à 1908 , avec une extrême délicatesse, Rilke répondra régulièrement à ce jeune...

En la primera obra que presentamos en esta edición, Cartas a un joven poeta, un joven con voluntad de poeta, Franz Xaver Kappus, envía sus mejores versos a un artista consagrado, Rainer Maria Rilke solicitando su opinión. En sus cartas de respuesta, Rilke no realiza una crítica literaria sino que se adentra en la esencia misma de la poesía y del arte: por qué escribir, por qué crear, qué y cómo buscar. La soledad y el sufrimiento como sustrato...

Rainer Maria Rilke is perhaps the most import German poet. His powerful and lyrical poetry has captured generations of readers. Both mystical and compelling his influence cannot be overstated. Collected here are more than 40 poems, full of beauty and mastery of language. It's not hard to see why Rilke remains one of the most popular and best selling poets to this very day.

Rainer Maria Rilke hinterließ seiner Nachwelt ein bedeutendes Werk aus Prosa, Lyrik, Essays, Briefen und Tagebüchern, darunter so bekannte Gedichte wie Der Panther oder Das Karussell oder unvergessliche ins Wort gehobene Gesten wie etwa "Wie soll ich meine Seele halten, dass / sie nicht an deine rührt?". Diese Auswahl aus seinem umfangreichen lyrischen Werk ermöglicht viele Entdeckungen und lässt erleben, wie Rilke "das deutsche Gedicht zum ersten...

The formative work of the legendary poet who sought to write "not feelings but things I had felt" When Rainer Maria Rilke arrived in Paris for the first time in September 1902, commissioned by a German publisher to write a monograph on Rodin, he was twenty-seven and already the author of nine books of poems. His early work had been accomplished, but belonged tonally to the impressionistic, feeling-centered world of a late-nineteenth-century aesthetic. Paris...

Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic orders? and even if one of them pressed me suddenly to his heart: I'd be consumed in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we can just barely endure, and we stand in awe of it as it coolly disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrifying. -from "The First Elegy" Over the last fifteen-years, in his two volumes of New Poems as well as in The Book...