每個生命都是永恆的開端：慢讀里爾克

by Rainer Maria Rilke, 里爾克, 唐際明 (Translator)

他是上帝的聲音、不朽的靈魂，人間所有的美好和神聖20世紀最偉大的德語詩人唐際明（德國柏林自由大學德語文學博士）導讀 銀色快手（詩人、譯者）推薦「里爾克之所以會成為里爾克，就在於他的不侷限，在於他的居無定所，不僅周遊歐洲列國，足跡還曾抵達北非的埃及；在於他對異國文化與不同的宗教信仰抱持的開放與有興趣深入接觸的態度……他認為詩人應能使用世上所有的語言創作。」 ——唐際明（本書導讀者）身為德國詩歌的先驅，里爾克為我們的語言發掘出音樂性與可塑性，放眼二十世紀的詩人無人能出其右。其思想的多樣性和原創性雖尚不廣為人知，但卻在在體現於其敘事的與藝術評論的文章中，特別是在為數眾多的信件裡，這些文字精確地表達出里爾克的思想，恰恰切合他在《馬爾泰手記》（Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge）中所寫的：「他是位詩人，憎惡不精確。」里爾克關於童年與青春、擺盪於獨處及與人共處之間的緊張關係、生與死或者愛情裡兩性的對立、藝術與藝術家、宗教與其教會、科技進步的成果與代價之言論，是如此具有前瞻性地切中時弊。如何從內省邁向朝世界開放、從主觀經驗邁向客觀體認、從羞於面對公眾的獨處邁向樂於助人的同情之過程，實屬里爾克之存在&

320 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1988

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.