Where Silence Reigns (New Directions Paperbook),New

Where Silence Reigns (New Directions Paperbook),New

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In this collection of excerpts from his essays, notebooks, and letters, preeminent modern poet Rainer Maria Rilke meditates on subjects as varied as a dolls, walking among trees, and the great sculptor Rodin. Where Silence Reigns, a sampling from his essays, notebooks, and letters, shows Rainer Maria Rilke (18751926), the preeminent modern poet of solitude and inwardness, seeking to reconcile his personal conflict between the claims of 'life' and the claims of art. His subjects are commonplace, seemingly innocuous at times: the encounter between a man and a dog, a collection of dolls, a walk among trees. But always the deceptively simple external phenomenon is seen as the symbol, the catalyst of an intensely felt inner experience. As he confided to his friend Frau WunderlyVolkart: 'Oh, how often one longs to speak a few degrees more deeply! My prose... lies deeper... but one gets only a minimal layer further down; ones left with a mere intimation of the kind of speech that may be possible THERE where silence reigns.' In addition to occasional pieces and notebook entries, this volume contains selections from the strange and haunting 'DreamBook,' the lyrical 'Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke,' and the entire 'RodinBook'Rilkes appreciation of the great sculptor whom he had served as secretary.

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