DIARIES OF A YOUNG POET - Scarce Fine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing

Rilke, Rainer Maria (Translated by Edward Snow and Michael Winkler)

ISBN 10: 0393045536 / ISBN 13: 9780393045536

Verlag: New York City, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997, 1997

Beschreibung

1st Printing. 306 pages. Published in 1997. The author's diaries. One of Rainer Maria Rilke's most valuable books. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Rainer Maria Rilke's "Tagebucher aus der Fruhzeit" in magisterial English translations. His record of his development as a poet and novelist. His philosophical, poetic, and just as important, personal growth is revealed through three diaries, written between 1898 and 1900, first published in German in wartime 1942, and now finally translated into English for the very first time by Edward Snow and Michael Winkler. Among pivotal Modernist writers, only Kafka's Diaries are as absorbing, as important, and as illuminating to our understanding of the link between Romanticism and Modernism as an indispensable achievement. An absolute "must-have" title for Rainer Maria Rilke collectors. This title is a great collection. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws or are in multiple subsequent printings. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. One of the greatest poet/writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER RAINER MARIA RILKE TITLE IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0393045536.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: DIARIES OF A YOUNG POET - Scarce Fine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing
• Verlag: New York City, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0393045536
• ISBN-13: 9780393045536
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition.
• Zustand: As New
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New
• Signiert: no

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Inhaltsangabe

In April 1898 Rainer Maria Rilke, not yet twenty-three, began a diary of his Florence visit. It was to record, in the form of an imaginary dialogue with his mentor and then-lover, Lou Andreas-Salome, his firsthand experiences of early Renaissance art. The project quickly expanded to include not only thoughts on life, history, and artistic genius, but also unguarded moments of revulsion, self-doubt, and manic expectation. The result is an intimate glimpse into the young Rilke, already experimenting brilliantly with language and metaphor. "For the lover of Rilke, this superb translation of the poet's early diaries will be a watershed. Through Edward Snow's and Michael Winkler's brilliantly supple and faithful translation . . . a new and more balanced picture of Rilke will emerge."―Ralph Freedman

Reseña del editor

In April 1898 Rainer Maria Rilke, not yet 23, began a diary of his Florence visit. It was to record, in the form of an imaginary dialogue with his mentor and then-lover, Lou Andreas-Salome, his firsthand experiences of early Renaissance art. Two others followed. In these "Schmargendorf" and "Worpswede" diaries, Rilke began to reach toward other people - among them the sculptor Clara Westhoff, whom he would marry and the painter Paula Becker, whose death would haunt him all his life. These diaries, translated into English here for the first time by Edward Snow and Michael Winkler as Diaries of a Young Poet, span what is arguably the most crucial phase in Rilke's development. They emerge in this fluent, copiously annotated translation as central to the Rilke canon, early prose counterweights to the later Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.