Rilke's Russia: A Cultural Encounter

by Anna A. Tavis

Anna A. Tavis explores the important of Russia in shaping Rilke's aesthetics. Rilke's two trips to Russia at the turn of the century, made in the company of Lou Andreas-Salome, led to connections with Leo Tolstoy, Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Maxim Gorky. Tavis uses letters, poems, and fiction to trace Rilke's actual and symbolic encounters with Russian culture and its prose masters between 1898 and 1926.

195 pages, Hardcover

First published October 12, 1994

Reviews

[Kendall McClain · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rilke, Dostoyevsky, Russia, Alyosha Karamazov, etc. !! Intersection of all my loves, this was made for me.

[Ebtisam ..]

thanks