Letters to a Young Poet
Between 1903 and 1908, Franz Xaver Kappus, a young man under twenty, sent Rilke his poetic essays, hoping Rilke's advice. Kappus wrote to different people: to an unknown postal worker; to a village priest...
Between 1903 and 1908, Franz Xaver Kappus, a young man under twenty, sent Rilke his poetic essays, hoping Rilke's advice. Kappus wrote to different people: to an unknown postal worker; to a village priest...
Set of small stories connected to each other, which have as a common thread the individual search for God. They are written in a very simple way, in the style of popular stories, and suggest that God is...
Twenty six letters, one per year, written by Rainer Maria Rilke to greet his mother on Christmas; a mother with whom he never maintained a good relationship, but who, nonetheless, always occupied a...
The book is hard to classify and difficult to read. Perhaps, as is mentioned by the author himself, it is more proper to consider the book as a collection of notes gathered throughout a long period of time...