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Selected Poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke; Stephen Mitchell (Translator, Editor); Robert Hass (Introduction by)
Category: Gift | Series: International Ser.
The supreme problem of every age is that of finding its consummate artistic expression. Before this problem every other remains of secondary importance. History defines and directs its physical course, science cooperates in the achievement of its material aims, but Art alone gives to the age its spiritu ...Show more
The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation by Rilke, Rainer Maria
Category: Non-Fiction
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. by Rainer Maria Rilke
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
While his old furniture rots in storage, Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris, with little but a library reader's card to distinguish him from the city's untouchables. Every person he sees seems to carry their death with them, and he thinks of the deaths, and ghosts, of his aristocratic f ...Show more
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Penguin pocket classics) by Rainer Maria Rilke
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins Ser.
'There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.'This dreamlike meditation on being young and alone in Paris is a feverish work of nerves, angst and sublime beauty from one of the twentieth century's greatest poets.A new series of twenty distinctive, unf ...Show more