Cartas a un joven poeta

by Rainer Maria Rilke

Es la obra que contiene el mensaje más profundo para todos aquellos que sientan de un modo u otro la llamada de la poesía y del arte. Rilke da forma en sus cartas a su concepción de la vida, la literatura, el arte y la religión, y lo hace estimulado por la correspondencia con Franz Xaver Kappus, un joven cadete de la Academia Militar de Wiener Neustadt, aspirante a poeta, que le recuerda mucho a sí mismo. Las cartas verán la luz en 1929, tras la muerte del poeta, en un volumen separado del resto de su correspondencia, y muestran a los lectores la modernidad de su autor en unos momentos en los que ideologías tan nocivas para la individualidad como el comunismo y el nacionalsocialismo iban ganando cada vez más terreno.

72 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2021

About the author

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.