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Le Testament

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Texte resté longtemps secret, ce n'est pas tout à fait un texte intime : ce que Rilke avait essayé d'expliquer longuement à Mme Klossowska dans ses lettres (Lettres françaises à Merline, publiées au Seuil en 1950), il essaie de le cerner ici de façon presque anonyme, pour ses lecteurs futurs ; et ces fragments, rien moins que spontanés, font presque une œuvre poétique centrale, sur le risque mortel, pour le poète, de ne pas aller au-delà de l'amour.

88 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1974

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Rainer Maria Rilke

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A 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.

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- Pero una noche ya no lo pude aguantar más. El silencio protector que sigue concediéndolo todo, de la casa, y mi tremenda situación a merced del mismo, pusieron tal discensión dentro de mi alma, que pensé no poder seguir viviendo. -
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J'ai toujours aimé sa façon de dire les choses.
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