Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Diaries of a Young Poet

Diaries of a Young Poet

Winkler, Michael
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Snow, Edward A.

Paperback

Biographies GeneralHistorical FiguresLiterary Figures

ISBN10: 0393318508
ISBN13: 9780393318500
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Nov 1 1998
Pages: 338
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In April 1898 Rainer Maria Rilke, not yet twenty-three, began a diary of his Florence visit. It was to record, in the form of an imaginary dialogue with his mentor and then-lover, Lou Andreas-Salome, his firsthand experiences of early Renaissance art. The project quickly expanded to include not only thoughts on life, history, and artistic genius, but also unguarded moments of revulsion, self-doubt, and manic expectation. The result is an intimate glimpse into the young Rilke, already experimenting brilliantly with language and metaphor. For the lover of Rilke, this superb translation of the poet's early diaries will be a watershed. Through Edward Snow's and Michael Winkler's brilliantly supple and faithful translation . . . a new and more balanced picture of Rilke will emerge.--Ralph Freedman

Also in

Literary Figures

View All