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Die Drei Liebenden
Poems and letters in German.
96 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1998
About the author
Rainer Maria Rilke
1,889 books7,172 followersA mystic lyricism and precise imagery often marked verse of German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, whose collections profoundly influenced 20th-century German literature and include
The Book of Hours
(1905) and
The Duino Elegies
(1923).
People consider him of the greatest 20th century users of the language.
His haunting images tend to focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety — themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets.
His two most famous sequences include the Sonnets to Orpheus , and his most famous prose works include the Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge .
He also wrote more than four hundred poems in French, dedicated to the canton of Valais in Switzerland, his homeland of choice.
People consider him of the greatest 20th century users of the language.
His haunting images tend to focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety — themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets.
His two most famous sequences include the Sonnets to Orpheus , and his most famous prose works include the Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge .
He also wrote more than four hundred poems in French, dedicated to the canton of Valais in Switzerland, his homeland of choice.
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January 23, 2023
I don’t think there’s an English edition of this book, but this is a collection of Rilke’s works (letters, sonnets and a short story), telling the stories of three women and their experiences with (spiritual and romantic) love. It’s stirring, moving and lyrically-written. I did think the letters and sonnets were a bit repetitive (when it comes to word usage and the content), which is why I’m giving it 4.5/5 stars, but the discussions on intimacy, attachment, guilt and love are incredibly well-written.
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