Rilke's Russia - A Cultural Encounter

Anna A. Tavis explores the important of Russia in shaping Rilke's aesthetics. Rilke's two trips to Russia at the turn of the century, made in the company of Lou Andreas-Salome, led to connections with Leo Tolstoy, Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Maxim Gorky. Tavis uses letters, poems, and fiction to trace Rilke's actual and symbolic encounters with Russian culture and its prose masters between 1898 and 1926.

Summary

Explores the importance of Russia in shaping Rainer Maria Rilke's aesthetics. This work traces Rilke's actual and symbolic encounters with Russian culture and its prose masters between 1898 and 1926.

Product details

• Authors: Anna A Tavis, Anna A. Tavis
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.1997
• EAN: 9780810114661
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-1466-1
• No. of pages: 195
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 234 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 381 g
• Series: Studies in Russian Literature; Studies in Russian Literature and Theory; Studies in Russian Literature; Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies