Description - Letters On Life by Rainer Rilke
In this treasury of uncommon wisdom and spiritual insight, the best writings and personal philosophies of one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, Rainer Maria Rilke, are gleaned by Ulrich Baer from thousands of pages of never-before translated correspondence.
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Book Details
ISBN: 9780812969023
ISBN-10: 0812969022
Format: Paperback
(183mm x 141mm x 16mm)
Pages: 240
Imprint: Modern Library Inc
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Publish Date: 11-Apr-2006
Country of Publication: United States
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Author Biography - Rainer Rilke
RAINER MARIA RILKE (1875--1926) ranks among the great poets of world literature, and was the author of Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus. ULRICH BAER is the author of Remnants of Song: Trauma and the Experience of Modernity in Charles Baudelaire and Paul Celan, and the editor of 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11. Baer is associate professor of German and comparative literature at New York University and chair of the German department.