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Weihnachten: Briefe, Gedichte und die Erzählung »Das Christkind«
Für Rilke war das Weihnachtsfest das höchste und geheimnisvollste Fest des Jahres. Ein beseligendes Gefühl der Vorfreude verband sich für ihn seit seiner Kindheit mit der Adventszeit und dem Heiligen Abend. Hiervon erzählen die Geschichten, Gedichte und Briefe des Dichters.
- GenresClassics
114 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2007
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About the author
Rainer Maria Rilke
1,799 books6,938 followersA mystic lyricism and precise imagery often marked verse of German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, whose collections profoundly influenced 20th-century German literature and include
The Book of Hours
(1905) and
The Duino Elegies
(1923).
People consider him of the greatest 20th century users of the language.
His haunting images tend to focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety — themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets.
His two most famous sequences include the Sonnets to Orpheus , and his most famous prose works include the Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge .
He also wrote more than four hundred poems in French, dedicated to the canton of Valais in Switzerland, his homeland of choice.
People consider him of the greatest 20th century users of the language.
His haunting images tend to focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety — themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets.
His two most famous sequences include the Sonnets to Orpheus , and his most famous prose works include the Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge .
He also wrote more than four hundred poems in French, dedicated to the canton of Valais in Switzerland, his homeland of choice.
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December 27, 2022
Obwohl August Diehl die Briefe und Gedichte wunderbar vorträgt, fand ich es schwierig, mich auf sie zu konzentrieren. Rilke sollte ich generell wohl lieber selbst lesen. Außerdem finde ich es mühsam, den Briefen ohne Kontext zu folgen. Manchmal ergibt sich, ob es sich um Mutter oder Schwester handelt, oft wusste ich aber weder, wer der*die Adressat*in ist und wie Rilke zu ihnen steht, noch in welcher Lage Rilke sich selbst gerade in seinem Leben und Schaffen befindet. Die Gedichte funktionieren da deutlich besser.
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