Rainer Maria Rilke - Böcker

Den tyske poeten Rainer Maria Rilkes texter om skulptören Auguste Rodin samlas här i översättning av Ulf Claësson. Filosofen Sven-Olov Wallenstein har skrivit ett omfattande efterord om Rilke, bilden och tinget.

Brev till en ung poet består av tio brev som Rainer Maria Rilke skrev till den aspirerande författaren Franz Kappus i början av 1900-talet. I breven behandlar Rilke – med ärlighet, elegans och klarhet – ämnen som skrivande, kärlek, sexualitet, religion och inte minst ensamhet. Brev till en ung poet är en klassiker som har inspirerat författare världen över i snart ett sekel – och att betrakta som närmast obligatorisk läsning för alla med litterära och konstnärliga ambitioner. Genom Leo Hallerstams översättning blir Rilkes tidlösa tankevärld nu tillgänglig i en moderniserad svensk utgåva.

Rainer Maria Rilkes Brev i översättning och urval av Mirjam Tuominen utkom första gången 1957. Här presenteras den i ny utgåva.  Urvalet innehåller 169 brev skrivna mellan åren 1900 och 1926. De speglar Rilkes liv och arbete, kontakter med vänner, familj och mecenater. Bilden av en kringresande poet framträder: sam-tidigt hemma i orden och i ständig rör-else i en främmande men bekant värld.

A superb new (and complete) translation of Rilke's luminously lyrical early book of poems, with scholarly introduction and commentary.Rainer Maria Rilke is arguably the most important modern German-language poet. His New Poems, Duino Elegies, and Sonnets to Orpheus are pillars of 20th-century poetry. Yet his earlier verse is less known. The Bookof Hours, written in three bursts between 1899 and 1903, is Rilke's most formative work, covering a crucial period in his rapid ascent from fin-de-siècle epigone to distinctive modern voice. The poems document Rilke'stour of Russia with Lou Andreas-Salomé, his hasty marriage and fathering of a child in Worpswede, and his turn toward the urban modernity of Paris. He assumes the persona of an artist-monk undertaking the Romantics' journey into the self, speaking to God as part transcendent deity, part needy neighbor. The poems can be read simply for their luminous lyricism, captured in Susan Ranson's superb new translation, which reproduces the music of the original German with impressive fluidity. An in-depth introduction explains the context of the work and elucidates its major themes, while the poem-by-poem commentary is helpful to the student and the general reader. A translator's note treating the technical problems of rhythm, meter, and rhyme that the translator of Rilke faces completes the volume. Susan Ranson is the co-translator, with Marielle Sutherland, of Rainer Maria Rilke, Selected Poems (Oxford World's Classics, 2011). Ben Hutchinson is Reader in Modern German at the University of Kent, UK.

'What matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now.'A hugely influential collection for writers and artists of all kinds, Rilke's profound and lyrical letters to a young friend advise on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.Over the course of six years, Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, suffering and the nature of advice itself; these profound and lyrical letters have since become hugely influential for writers and artists of all kinds. This volume also contains the 'Letter from a Young Worker', a striking polemic against Christianity written too in letter form.

Den tyskspråkige poeten Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) tillhör obestridligen en av världslitteraturens verkliga storheter. Nr 15 i Svavelserien är den första svenska översättningen av hans prosastycke "Ur-Geräusch", översatt av Rebecca Kjellberg. I Urljud från 1919 utgår Rilke från ett minne som följt honom sedan skolåren. Under en fysiklektion på 1890-talet konstruerades en enkel fonograf av bl.a. papper, vax och ett strå från en klädborste. Vad skolpojkarna i klassrummet upplevde när ljudet av deras egna röster spelas upp var omskakande. Under Rilkes studieår i Paris, i den anatomiska teatern på École des Beaux-Arts, väcktes hans fascination för det mänskliga skelettets anatomi. Därför införskaffade han själv ett kranium till sin skrivkammare. När han, i det flackande ljuset från ett stearinljus, en kväll fick syn på kronsömmen – skarven mellan pannben och hjässben – häpnade han över likheten med det ljudspår han som pojke sett ristat i fonografens vaxrulle. Här föds hos Rilke den svindlande tanken om vad som skulle höras om man lät fonografnålen följa denna sutur – ett urljud? Dena tanke resulterade så i föreliggande prosastycke vilket inkorporerar idéer om poesin, kärleken och alla sinnens samverkan. Svavel är en handgjord, småskalig och alltid sextonsidig skriftserie innehållande koncentrerad och högklassig litteratur. Böckerna i serien är häftade och i A6-format. Utgivna titlar i Svavel: 1. PETER LUCAS ERIXON Fotismer (2012) 2. MORTEN SONDERGAARD Akut sol (2013) 3. KENNETH KOCH Om estetik (2013) 4. JONAS ELLERSTRÖM Antecknat i Albion (2013) 5. DAN GUSTAVSSON Naturlyrik (2013) 6. CHRISTER BOBERG Haiku (2013) 7. LOUISE JUHL DALSGAARD Att spela squash i ett rum utan väggar (2015) 8. JONAS RASMUSSEN Det hemska vi har gjort (2015) 9. MARIA KÜCHEN Varg (2015) 10. LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Genom eldslågorna (2015) 11. PETRA MÖLSTAD Omloppstid (2015) 12. SIDDHARTHA SEBASTIAN LARSSON Jag har 33 aforismer och du är en av dem (2016) 13. VÄRLDENS KORTASTE ANTOLOGI (2016) 14. JONAS ELLERSTRÖM Antipoderna (2016) 15. RAINER MARIA RILKE Urljud (2016) 16. JONAS RASMUSSEN Därur orden (2016) 17. LEIF HOLMSTRAND Avstå från tragedierna (2017) 18. VÄRLDENS KORTASTE ESSÄSAMLING (2017) 19. EVA RIBICH Kvar (2018) 20. CIA RINNE Vad angår meningar är jag förtvivlad (2020) 21. RUNE CHRISTIANSEN Transamorem Transmortem (2021) 22. FREDRIK AHLFORS Väderobservationer (2021) 23. CHARLOTTA LJUNG A B C D E (2021) 24. LUISA FAMOS På väg (2022) 25. LINA HAGELBÄCK Låt oss aldrig tala ut (2022) 26. WILLIAMS CARLOS WILLIAMS Som denna blomma framhärdar jag (2023) 27. KENNET KLEMETS eller som när jag blundar (2023)

While his old furniture rots in storage, Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris, with little but a library reader's card to distinguish him from the city's untouchables. Every person he sees seems to carry their death with them, and he thinks of the deaths, and ghosts, of his aristocratic family, of which only he remains. The only novel by one of the greatest writers of poetry in German, the semi-autobiographical Notebooks is an uneasy, compelling and poetic book that anticipated Sartre and is full of passages of lyrical brilliance.Michael Hulse's new translation perfectly conveys the unsettling beauty of the original and is accompanied by an introduction on Rilke's life and the biographical and literary influences on the Notebooks. This edition also includes suggested further reading, a chronology and notes.

Hailed as the greatest modern lyrical poet of Germany, Rainer Maria Rilke’s genius lies in his passion for perfection, artistic integrity and ‘willingness to remain a perpetual beginner’. The verse contained in this selection ranges from the objective, naturalistic descriptions of his earliest works to the increasingly effusive outpourings of half-religious ecstasy and anguish that characterize his later poems and culminates in the overwhelmingly personal vision of the famous ‘Duino Elegies’ and ‘The Sonnets to Orpheus’, in which his most intense experiences of living and being find their noblest expression.

At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself; these profound and lyrical letters have since become hugely influential for writers and artists of all kinds. This book also contains the 'Letter from a Young Worker', a striking polemic against Christianity written in letter-form, near the end of Rilke's life. In Lewis Hyde's introduction, he explores the context in which these letters were written and how the author embraced his isolation as a creative force. Charlie Louth's afterword discusses the similarities and contrasts of the two works, and Rilke's religious and sexual wordplay. This edition also contains a chronology, notes, and suggested further reading.

'Nowhere, beloved, can world be but within us'Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, and one of the greatest twentieth-century lyric poets in German. From The Book of Hours in 1905 to the Sonnets of Orpheus written in 1922, his poetry explores themes of death, love, and loss. He strives constantly to interrogate the relationship between his art and the world around him, moving from the neo-romantic and the mystic towards the precise craft of expressing the everyday in poetry.This bilingual edition fully reflects Rilke's poetic development. It contains the full text of the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus, selected poems from The Book of Images, New Poems, and earlier volumes, and from the uncollected poetry 1906-26. The translations are accurate, sensitive, and nuanced, and are accompanied by an introduction and notes that elucidate Rilke's poetic practice and his central role in modern poetry. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

'An indescribable, aching, futile longing for myself'The young Danish aristocrat Malte Laurids Brigge has been left rootless by the early death of his parents. Now living in Paris, Malte begins to record his life in a series of loosely connected notes, diary entries, prose poems, parables and stories, ostensibly collected by a fictional editor to form the Notebooks. Focusing on Malte's observations and experiences in the present, recollections of his childhood and family, and his reflections on historical events, these notes in highly crafted poetic prose explore the themes of life in the metropolis, poverty, sickness and death, love, memory and time, and perception and language. The only extended prose work by the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is a landmark in the development of the twentieth-century novel. It marks a radical departure from nineteenth-century realism, transcending conventions of linear narrative to reflect a consciousness in crisis, and an archetypal confrontation with the modern.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

These letters give the account of Rilke's own state of mind and of his final approach to the threshold of his great works. They show the rapid change he underwent after his reaction to the first excitement of the war; how his dismay at the cruelty and confusion of war helped to render the poet in him speechless for many years; how he nevertheless characteristically held to his own fundamental views throughout war and revolution and in spite of everything retained his belief in the capacity of humanity to create for itself a better future.

The period here covered reflects all the great experiences of Rilke's early adult life: his difficult beginnings, his relationships with Lou Andreas-Salome and with his wife Clara, his two journeys to Russia, his contact with the Worpswede artists, the influence of Paris, the revelation of Cezanne. Many of the letters are psychologically revealing; many touch upon characteristic themes, or freshly transcribe experience that sooner or later passes into the poetry.

There are important letters here to Muzot, Lou Andreas-Salome, to Princess Marie of Thurn and Taxis Hohenlohe, and many others. The most significant of the Wartime Letters: 1914-1921 are also included. An Introduction briefly traces the development of Rilke's work during these years; the Notes provide the necessary framework of biographical details and point up significant references to the poetry.

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is Rilke’s major prose work and was one of the earliest publications to introduce him to American readers. The very wide audience which Rilke’s work commands today will welcome the reissue in paperback of this extremely perceptive translation of the Notebooks by M. D. Herter Norton. A masterly translation of one of the first great modernist novels by one of the German language's greatest poets, in which a young man named Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris while his belongings rot in storage. Every person he sees seems to carry their death within them and with little but a library card to distinguish him from the city's untouchables, he thinks of the deaths, and ghosts, of his aristocratic family, of which he is the sole living descendant. Suffused with passages of lyrical brilliance, Rilke's semi-autobiographical novel is a moving and powerful coming-of-age story.

Rainer Maria Rilke felt that the world and all its joys most truly belonged to the young, and in Stories of God he captured for them the magic, charm and wisdom of fairy and folk tales.

These translations by M.D. Herter Norton offer Rilke's work to the English-speaking world in an accurate, sensitive, modern version.

Born in 1875, the great German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart. Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. From 1903 to 1908 Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young, would-be poet on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world. Those letters, still a fresh source of inspiration and insight, are accompanied here by a chronicle of Rilke's life that shows what he was experiencing in his own relationship to life and work when he wrote them.