by Rainer Maria Rilke · Angle Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496970267
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Letters to a Young Poet is a reflection on artistic creation as a way of life. This book offers lessons on love, death, and solitude. First published in 1929, it is a compilation of ten letters written by Rainer Maria Rilke between 1903 and 1908 to Franz Xaver Kapus, a young cadet at the Austro-Hungarian military school who sought advice on writing and showed his early works. These letters, framed in a process of creative maturation, expose Rilke's vision of life, death, and the word as a reason for existence.
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was an Austrian poet. Acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, he is widely recognized as a significant writer in the German language. His work is viewed by critics and scholars as possessing undertones of mysticism, exploring themes of subjective experience and disbelief. His writings include one novel, several collections of poetry, several volumes of correspondence and a few early novellas.
