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The Beginning of Terror - A Psychological Study of Rainer Maria Rilke's Life and Work (Paperback)
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The Beginning of Terror - A Psychological Study of Rainer Maria Rilke's Life and Work (Paperback)
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The insights here are of such depth, and contain such beauty in
them, that time and again the reader must pause for breath. At last
Rilke has met a critic whose insight, courage, and humanity are
worthy of his life and work." Leslie Epstein Director, Graduate
Creative Writing Program, Boston University "[A] well-reasoned,
fairly fascinating, and illuminating study which soundly and
convincingly applies Freudian and particularly post-Freudian
insights into the self, to Rilke's life and work, in a way which
enlightens us considerably as to the relationship between life and
work in original ways. Kleinbard takes off where Hugo Simenauer's
monumental psycho- biography of Rilke (1953) left off. . . . He
succeeds in giving us a psychic portrait of the poet which is more
illuminating and which . . . does greater justice to its subject
than any of his predecessors.. . . . Any reader with strong
interest in Rilke would certainly welcome the availability of this
study." Walter H. Sokel,Commonwealth Professor of German and
English Literatures,University of Virginia. For beauty is nothing
but the beginning of terror, which we are just able to bear, and we
wonder at it so because it calmly disdainsto destroy us." Rilke
Beginning with Rilke's 1910 novel, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids
Brigge, The Beginning of Terror examines the ways in which the poet
mastered the illness that is so frightening and crippling in Malte
and made the illness a resource for his art. Kleinbard goes on to
explore Rilke's poetry, letters, and non-fiction prose, his
childhood and marriage, and the relationship between illness and
genius in the poet and his work, a subject to which Rilke returned
time and again. This psychoanalytic study also defines the complex
connections between Malte's and Rilke's fantasies of mental and
physical fragmentation, and the poet's response to Rodin's
disintegrative and re-integrative sculpture during the writing of
The Notebooks and New Poems. One point of departure is the poet's
sense of the origins of his illness in his childhood and,
particularly, in his mother's blind, narcissistic self- absorption
and his father's emotional constriction and mental limitations.
Kleinbard examines the poet's struggle to purge himself of his
deeply felt identification with his mother, even as he fulfilled
her hopes that he become a major poet. The book also contains
chapters on Rilke's relationships with Lou Andreas Salom and Aguste
Rodin, who served as parental surrogates for Rilke. A psychological
portrait of the early twentieth-century German poet, The Beginning
of Terror explores Rilke's poetry, letters, non-fiction prose, his
childhood and marriage. David Kleinbard focuses on the relationship
between illness and genius in the poet and his work, a subject to
which Rilke returned time and again.
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