Letters on Life New Prose Translations

Name: Letters on Life New Prose Translations
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ISBN: 9780812969023

ISBN-10: 0812969022

ISBN-13: 9780812969023

Edition: 2006

Authors: Rainer Maria Rilke, Ulrich Baer

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Gleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke’s voluminous, never-before-translated correspondence, this volume offersthe best writings and personal philosophy of one of the twentieth century’s greatest poets. The result is a profound vision of how the human drive to create and understand can guide us in every facet of life. Arranged by theme–from everyday existence with others to the exhilarations of love and the experience of loss, from dealing with adversity to the nature of inspiration–here are Rilke’s thoughts on how to infuse everyday life with beauty, wonder, and meaning. Intimate, stylistically masterful, brilliantly translated and assembled, and brimming with the passion of Rilke,Letters on Life…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/11/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.55" wide x 7.20" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Ulrich Baer is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature at New York University.



Introduction



On Life and Living: You Have to Live Life to the Limit


On Being with Others: To Be a Part, That Is Fulfillment for Us


On Work: Get Up Cheerfully on Days You Have to Work


On Difficulty and Adversity: The Measure by Which We May Know Our Strength


On Childhood and Education: This Joy in Daily Discovery


On Nature: It Knows Nothing of Us


On Solitude: The Loneliest People Above All Contribute Most to Commonality


On Illness and Recovery: Pain Tolerates No Interpretation


On Loss, Dying, and Death: Even Time Does Not "Console" ... It Puts Things in Their Place and Creates Order


On Language: That Vast, Humming, and Swinging Syntax


On Art: Art Presents Itself as a Way of Life


On Faith: A Direction of the Heart


On Goodness and Morality: Nothing Good, Once It Has Come into Existence, May Be Suppressed


On Love: There Is No Force in the World but Love


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