Es war im April des Jahres 188.. Ich war gezwungen meine Wohnung zu wechseln. Mein Hausherr hatte sein Haus verkauft und der neue Besitzer war entschlossen, das Stockwerk, in welchem mein bescheidenes Zimmer sich befand, ungeteilt zu vermieten. Ich suchte lange nach einem anderen - erfolglos. Endlich nahm ich des Suchens müde fast ungeschaut ein Kämmerchen im dritten Stock eines Gebäudes, dessen Längsseite keinen unbedeutenden Teil der engen Seitengasse einnahm.
Author
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.
