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The ten letters collected here are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of our century. Written when Rainer Maria Rilke was himself still a young man with most of his greatest work before him, they are addressed to a student who had sent Rilke some of his work, asking for advice about becoming a writer. The two never met, but over a period of several years Rilke wrote him these ten letters, which have been enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of readers for what Stephen Mitchell calls the "vibrant and deeply felt experience of life" that informs them.
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“Øhm, den her bog var FANTASTISK! Jeg var ikke klar over, at jeg havde læst den kortere version af den her bog, så nu skal jeg klart have fat i den længere og læse den (måske en gang til sommer). Jeg føler, at denne bog både var et kram og et slap in the face på samme tid (på en god måde, lol).”
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“This collection of letters brought out a lot of relatable emotions out of me. Even as a woman, I felt that in his thoughts, there was also space for me to recognize myself. The letter to a young worker didn't appeal to me as much but there's no way that one wouldn't like Rilke's prose”Mon
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About Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) studied literature, art history, and philosophy in both Munich and Prague and is often considered one of the German language's greatest twentieth-century poets. His two most famous verse sequences are the Sonnets to Orpheus and the Duino Elegies; his two most famous prose works are Letters to a Young Poet and the semiautobiographical The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.
Charlie Louth is a fellow at Queen's College, Oxford, where he lectures in German. He is the author of Hölderlin and the Dynamics of Translation.
Lewis Hyde is the author of the hundred-million-copy bestseller The Gift. A MacArthur fellow and former director of undergraduate creative writing at Harvard University, Hyde is a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Gambier, Ohio.
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