Der Band enthält eine Auswahl von acht frühen Erzählungen Rilkes. Das Familienfest schildert auf fast komische Weise die verlogenen Konventionen bei einer Familienfeier; in Greise porträtiert Rilke liebevoll drei alte Sonderlinge. Er erzählt von Albrecht Ostermann, der nach einem Spaziergang einfach verschwindet, oder von Ewald Tragy, der sich mühsam aus familiären und gesellschaftlichen Fesseln befreit. Mit einem Nachwort und Anmerkungen.
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A mystic lyricism and precise imagery often marked verse of German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, whose collections profoundly influenced 20th-century German literature and include The Book of Hours (1905) and The Duino Elegies (1923). People consider him of the greatest 20th century users of the language. His haunting images tend to focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety—themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets. His two most famous sequences include the Sonnets to Orpheus , and his most famous prose works include the Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge . He also wrote more than four hundred poems in French, dedicated to the canton of Valais in Switzerland, his homeland of choice.
