Description

Rainer Maria Rilke offers a compelling portrait of Parisian life, art, and culture at the beginning of the 20th century

In 1902, the young German poet Rainer Maria Rilke travelled to Paris to write a monograph on the sculptor Auguste Rodin. He returned many times over the course of his life, by turns inspired and appalled by the city s high culture and low society, and his writings give a fascinating insight into Parisian art and culture in the last century.

This book brings together Rilke s sublime poetic meditations on existence Notes on the Melody of Things and the first English translation of Rilke s experiences in Paris as observed by his French translator Maurice Betz.