Auguste Rodin

By Rainer Maria Rilke

Book Overview

RAINER MARIA RILKE: AUGUSTE RODIN

Translated by Jessie Lamont and Hans Trausil

Edited by Jeremy Mark Robinson

A new edition of Rainer Maria Rilke's monograph on the French sculptor Auguste Rodin, a book first published in 1919. It is fully illustrated, with works by Rodin, and portraits of Rilke.

Includes illustrations, an introduction, a note on Rilke, and a bibliography.

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Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the greatest of all lyrical poets. Rilke is part of that group of European poets and writers which includes Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Rimbaud, Georg Trakl, Marina Tsvetajeva, and friends such as Andre Gide, Lou Andreas-Salome and Paul Valery.

Rilke was an incredibly inventive creator of poetry, who could forge the myriad states and images of love, from the delicate, detailed and subtle, to the passionate, illuminating and ecstatic.

Fully illustrated. With bibliography and notes. Hardcover. Full colour laminate cover. 124 pages.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 186171937X
• ISBN13: 9781861719379
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Crescent Moon Publishing
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Wrong book and condition

The book I got is not by Rilke and it is not in “very good condition”. Buyer beware.

"All right, Ben. Attend me."

"Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at an old woman, protray her exactly as she is...and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be...and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart...no matter what the merciless hours have done to her. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn't matter to you and me; we were never meant to be admired-but it does to them." -Robert A. Heinlein "Stranger in a Strange Land"