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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, read by Max Deacon and Dan Stevens. At the start of the 20th century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself; these profound and lyrical letters have since become hugely influential for writers and artists of all kinds.

German poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s (1875-1926) Letters to a Young Poet has been treasured for nearly a century. Rilke’s personal reflections on the vocation of writing and the experience of living urge an aspiring poet to look inward, while also offering sage wisdom on further issues including gender, solitude, and romantic love. Barrows and Macy’s translation extends this compilation of timeless advice and wisdom to a fresh generation of readers and listeners. 

The poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke addresses the issues of God, death, and "destructive time." Rilke tries to transform these problems into an inner world, what he calls "a whole inner world as if an angel, comprehending all space, were blind and looking into himself." Eminent author and translator Stephen Mitchell brings these ideas vividly to life in this new translation of Rilke's most transcendent works.

Rainer Maria Rilke has been called the most significant and compelling poet of spiritual experience of the 20th century. His exploration of the struggle between life and art and the supremacy of divine love over personal love has touched the hearts of men and women everywhere. The poems in this reading are from the selected poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, edited and translated by Stephen Mitchell. Also featured are new translations made exclusively for this program.

Prague, ville où Rilke passa son enfance, est sans doute le personnage essentiel de ces deux récits. "Le roi Bohusch" et "Frère et sœur", constituant ces "Histoires pragoises", comptent parmi les tout premiers textes de Rilke. Nourris d'éléments autobiographiques, ils évoquent l'atmosphère qui régnait alors à Prague, et, en particulier, l'émergence du sentiment nationaliste anti-allemand de la jeunesse tchèque.

A groundbreaking masterpiece of early European modernism, originally published in 1910, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge unspools the vivid reflections of the titular young poet and nobleman. From his Paris garret, Brigge records his encounters with the city and its people, muses on his family history, and lays bare an alternately exquisite and grotesque atmosphere of death. With a poet’s attention to language, Rainer Maria Rilke forges a dazzlingly visual coming-of-age narrative, kaleidoscopic in its approach to time and its portraits of Parisian life.

When a young student at a military academy mails some of his poetry to the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke, seeking advice, he initiates years of correspondence, during which Rilke expresses his most personal insights into the artist's relationship with life, the interior needs of the individual growing towards maturity, and how the impulse to artistic creation can and should be a source of abiding and developing happiness even for those who cannot become artists.

Ces lettres écrites par le poète allemand Rainer Maria Rilke ont été rédigées entre 1903 et 1908 à Franz-Xaver Kappus. Ce dernier était élève du prytanée militaire que Rilke avait fréquenté. Le jeune Kappus adressa à Rilke, alors âgé de 28 ans, une longue lettre où il lui confiait sa vocation de poète. Rilke ne s'attache pas à porter un jugement sur les poèmes de Kappus.

Die schönsten deutschen Gedichte und Balladen sind in diesem Hörbuch versammelt. Ob Goethes "Über allen Gipfeln", Rilkes "Rose, oh reiner Widerspruch" oder Morgensterns "Galgenlieder" - sie haben eines gemeinsam: sie sind Meisterwerke der Dichtkunst.

Ranier Maria Rilke challenges you, "...to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answers." Rilke's ability to combine the sensual and the spiritual into an inspired vision of the art of living is brought to vivid life in his letters. Through his eyes, the everyday difficulties of love, sex, solitude, sadness, and doubt are seen as the archetypal elements of the drama called life.

En 1903, Rainer Maria Rilke répond à une longue missive envoyée par un jeune homme de vingt ans, Franz Kappus, qui est élève officier comme il le fut à son âge. S'ensuit une correspondance qui durera jusqu'en 1908 et qui sera publiée par les soins de Franz en 1929. Nous ne connaîtrons jamais ses lettres, car il ne publiera que celles de Rilke, préférant s'effacer derrière le poète.

Gleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke's voluminous, never-before-translated letters to bereaved friends and acquaintances, The Dark Interval is a profound vision of the mourning process and a meditation on death's place in our lives. Following the format of Letters to a Young Poet, this book arranges Rilke's letters into an uninterrupted sequence, showcasing the full range of the great author's thoughts on death and dying as well as his sensitive and moving expressions of consolation and condolence.

"Lettres à un jeune poète" regroupe les correspondances qu'échangèrent Rainer Maria Rilke et son élève Kappu entre 1903 et 1908. Rilke a alors 27 ans, mais sa démarche est tellement détachée des velléités d'un "jeune poète", qu'on le croirait déjà revenu d'une longue habitude. Aux envies d'honneur, il répond par la nécessité de créer. Il préconise la solitude et l'introspection et pose au jeune Kappu cette question essentielle : "devriez-vous mourir s'il vous était interdit d'écrire ?"

Rainer Maria Rilke has been called the most significant and compelling poet of spiritual experience of the 20th century. His exploration of the struggle between life and art and the supremacy of divine love over personal love has touched the hearts of men and women everywhere. The poems in this reading are from the selected poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, edited and translated by Stephen Mitchell.

These have been called the most famous and beloved letters of the past century. Rainer Maria Rilke himself said that much of his creative expression went into his correspondence, and here he touches upon a wide range of subjects that will interest writers, artists, and thinkers. This luminous translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's classic offers brilliant inspiration to all people who seek to know and express their inner truth.

Unaufdringlich und zurückhaltend, mit einer in Moll getönten Sprachmelodie, die aber in Rhythmus und Klangfarbe durchaus natürlich wirkte...

"Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge" ist Rilkes einziges längeres Prosawerk. Malte, ein junger Däne aus bester Familie, lebt in Paris unter bedrückenden Verhältnissen...

Paris, ein Moloch zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts. Malte Laurids Brigge, letzter Spross einer aussterbenden Adelsfamilie, wagt den Blick unter die Oberfläche der Dinge und findet ein "neues Leben voller neuer Bedeutungen". In poetischer Sprache beschreibt Malte Bilder aus dem Paris des Fin de Siècle, verwoben mit Erinnerungen an seine Kindheit in Dänemark. Der Südwestrundfunk inszeniert dieses Schlüsselwerk der deutschsprachigen Moderne als ein Kaleidoskop von großartigen Bildern und außergewöhnlichen Klängen und eröffnet einen neuen Zugang zu Maltes Gedanken- und Gefühlswelt.

"Leben Sie jetzt die Fragen. Vielleicht leben Sie dann allmählich, ohne es zu merken, eines fernen Tages in die Antwort hinein." schrieb Rainer Maria Rilke an den jungen Soldaten und Dichter Franz Xaver Kappus, der sich zuvor ratsuchend an den bekannten Schriftsteller wandte. Rilke offenbarte ihm in rührender Sorge seine Antworten auf die wichtigsten Fragen des Lebens in seiner ganzen Bandbreite - mit all seinen Freuden, Nöten und Erlösungen. Zehn Briefe, die in Ihrer Wärme, Intensität und Zeitlosigkeit zu den wohl schönsten Werken der deutschen Literatur gehören.

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge) has been described as an anti-novel. It is set in Paris in the period just before the First World War, but it presents a bleaker milieu than that described by Proust. The language is terse, the atmosphere painful, the images uncompromising. Rilke drew on the short period he spent in Paris in 1903 where, in contrast to the rural circumstances in which he had lived before, he found the underbelly of urban life distressing.