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These have been called the most famous and beloved letters of the past century. Rainer Maria Rilke himself said that much of his creative expression went into his correspondence, and here he touches upon a wide range of subjects that will interest writers, artists, and thinkers. This luminous translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's classic offers brilliant inspiration to all people who seek to know and express their inner truth.

Hermann Holzer erzählt seinem Freund Ernst Bang, daß er demnächst seine Freundin Helene heiraten will...

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge) has been described as an anti-novel. It is set in Paris in the period just before the First World War, but it presents a bleaker milieu than that described by Proust. The language is terse, the atmosphere painful, the images uncompromising. Rilke drew on the short period he spent in Paris in 1903 where, in contrast to the rural circumstances in which he had lived before, he found the underbelly of urban life distressing.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, read by Max Deacon and Dan Stevens. At the start of the 20th century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself; these profound and lyrical letters have since become hugely influential for writers and artists of all kinds.

Throughout his life, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke addressed letters to individuals who were close to him, who had contacted him after reading his works, or who he had met briefly – anyone with whom he felt an inner connection. Within his vast correspondence, there are about two dozen letters of condolence. In these direct, personal and practical letters, Rilke writes about loss and mortality, assuming the role of a sensitive, serious and uplifting guide through life’s difficulties.

In this volume we examine the German language. Or rather the authors who wrote in German but are here translated into English. German is most often called the language of philosophers due to its precision and clarity. However, if you’ve studied German, you will know that sentence construction can be difficult to grasp. However, within these stories the language of these great talents express themselves in dazzling prose and searching narratives. And the characters? Clearly the works of genius.

German poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s (1875-1926) Letters to a Young Poet has been treasured for nearly a century. Rilke’s personal reflections on the vocation of writing and the experience of living urge an aspiring poet to look inward, while also offering sage wisdom on further issues including gender, solitude, and romantic love. Barrows and Macy’s translation extends this compilation of timeless advice and wisdom to a fresh generation of readers and listeners.

Rainer Maria Rilke has been called the most significant and compelling poet of spiritual experience of the 20th century. His exploration of the struggle between life and art and the supremacy of divine love over personal love has touched the hearts of men and women everywhere. The poems in this reading are from the selected poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, edited and translated by Stephen Mitchell.

Born in 1875, the great German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898, and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart. Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. From 1903 to 1908, Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young, would-be poet on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world. Those letters, still a fresh source of inspiration and insight, are accompanied here by a chronicle of Rilke's life.

"Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge" ist Rilkes einziges längeres Prosawerk. Malte, ein junger Däne aus bester Familie, lebt in Paris unter bedrückenden Verhältnissen...

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 poet and nobleman. From his Paris garret, Brigge records his encounters with the city and its people, muses on his family history, and lays bare an alternately exquisite and grotesque atmosphere of death. With a poet’s attention to language, Rainer Maria Rilke forges a dazzlingly visual coming-of-age narrative, kaleidoscopic in its approach to time and its portraits of Parisian life.

A work that has inspired generations, this new edition of Letters to a Young Poet features a fresh translation of Rilke's 10 classic letters, along with the missing letters from the young poet himself.

Eine Sammlung ungekürzter Lesungen aus Rainer Maria Rilkes Werken: Duineser Elegien, Geschichten vom lieben Gott, Meistererzählungen, Die schönsten Gedichte und Sonette an Orpheus...

Wenn es dunkel wird, der Mond aufgeht und die Sterne zu funkeln beginnen, ist es Zeit, schlafen zu gehen. Dieses Hörbuch lädt dazu ein, sich gemütlich ins Bett zu kuscheln und die Augen zuzumachen, um dem Lied vom Mond und seinen Schäfchen zu lauschen, die Geschichte vom kleinen Häwelmann zu hören oder in Gedichten Zauberwesen wie dem Zwölf-Elf zu begegnen. Um bei diesen Reisen ins Land der Träume ganz nebenbei selbst einzuschlummern.

Rainer Maria Rilke war nicht nur meisterhafter Poet, der in seinen Gedichten ganze Welten erschuf – er konnte auch mit dem größeren Pinsel malen. Seine Erzählungen lassen – trotz ihrer Kompaktheit – den Hörer eintauchen in eine neue Welt. Und nach dem Hören ist man noch lange in Nachdenken versunken.

Rainer Maria Rilke nannte dieses Werk selbst nicht "Roman", sondern "Prosabuch". Dennoch wird es heute als sein einziger Roman eingeordnet. In 71 Abschnitten, die wie Tagebucheintragungen gehalten sind, wirft Rilke einen Blick aufs Leben des Dichters Malte Laurids Brigge, der nach dem Tod seiner Eltern als Dichter in Paris ein neues Leben beginnen will. Dieses Buch nimmt wahrhaftig eine Ausnahmestellung in der Literatur ein!

"Leben Sie jetzt die Fragen. Vielleicht leben Sie dann allmählich, ohne es zu merken, eines fernen Tages in die Antwort hinein." schrieb Rainer Maria Rilke an den jungen Soldaten und Dichter Franz Xaver Kappus, der sich zuvor ratsuchend an den bekannten Schriftsteller wandte. Rilke offenbarte ihm in rührender Sorge seine Antworten auf die wichtigsten Fragen des Lebens in seiner ganzen Bandbreite - mit all seinen Freuden, Nöten und Erlösungen. Zehn Briefe, die in Ihrer Wärme, Intensität und Zeitlosigkeit zu den wohl schönsten Werken der deutschen Literatur gehören.

Unaufdringlich und zurückhaltend, mit einer in Moll getönten Sprachmelodie, die aber in Rhythmus und Klangfarbe durchaus natürlich wirkte...

Die schönsten 50 Gedichte zum Hören!
Rainer Maria Rilke war ein unnachahmlicher Sprachmagier, dem es gelang, dem Unnennbaren Ausdruck zu verleihen.
Rainer Maria Rilke wurde 1875 in Prag geboren. Von der Mutter als Mädchen erzogen und vom Vater auf eine Militärschule geschickt, verbrachte der sensible Rilke eine traumatische Jugend. Er gilt als der bedeutendste und einflussreichste deutschsprachige Dichter des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts.

When a young student at a military academy mails some of his poetry to the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke, seeking advice, he initiates years of correspondence, during which Rilke expresses his most personal insights into the artist's relationship with life, the interior needs of the individual growing towards maturity, and how the impulse to artistic creation can and should be a source of abiding and developing happiness even for those who cannot become artists.