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Young Rilke and His Time (Hardcover)
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Young Rilke and His Time (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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A look at neglected aspects of the early career of one of the
premier poets of the German language. Although Rainer Maria Rilke
and his work have been much studied and written about over the past
century -- as befits the perhaps most important German-language
poet of modern times -- certain aspects of his early life and
career have been neglected or are in need of a fresh look.
Accordingly, this book investigates Rilke's life and career from
adolescence until the verge of thirty. Here the reader finds the
hysterical, harried tutee clinging to Valerie vonRhonfeld; the
clever, supercilious, and anxious stroller through Prague of
Larenopfer; the narcissistic diarist preening for Lou
Andreas-Salome in Italy and elsewhere; the priggishly high-minded
but lethal reviewer of German-language literature; the devoted but
delusional presenter of Nordic letters. A final section focuses on
thirteen poems or poem clusters composed between 1892 and 1900 and
mostly left untouched by Rilke scholarship. While depending heavily
on the evidence of the texts themselves, the present author allows
himself to conjecture about, for instance, the traces left by the
boy's hasty training in Latin; his knowledge -- or ignorance -- of
Czech national opera and popular literature; the genesis of some
willfully "decadent" poems; his odd literary likes and dislikes;
and so on. From this "Wirrnis" (confusion, muddle; one of his
favorite words), the young Rilke emerges as a dogged self-educator,
and, for all his laments and insecurities and languorous poses, a
figure of distinction, gifted with an almost preternatural verbal
inventiveness and recondite energy. George C. Schoolfield is
Emeritus Professor of German and Scandinavian Literature at Yale.
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