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Liese la pelirroja y otros cuentos

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A través de estos relatos, Rilke va apartando los fantasmas que le asaltan en esos años clave de su vida: los de su distante padre [...], los de los seres que le acosan en la realidad de las academias militares, o esos seres anónimos y grises que cruzan las calles de la gran urbe desolada. La sensibilidad del poeta le arrastra de continuo hacia otra realidad [...]. Va librándose, pues, el escritor gracias a sus cuentos juveniles de esos fantasmas y para ello debe llevar a sus personajes a esas situaciones extremas que imponen la violencia, la prostitución, la venganza [...], la muerte. [...] En ningún momento la obsesión de Rilke por estos temas sórdidos implica una mirada única y realista. Hay en ellos, si, esa lectura descarnada y muy dura de la realidad, pero solo en la medida en que es reveladora del sentido de una piedad profunda que hay detrás de los hechos chocantes o violentos y que el ser humano precisa para sobrellevar la vida y salvarse.

214 pages, Paperback

Published August 27, 2008

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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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