Rainer Maria Rilke - Cartas a um Jovem Poeta (ed. bilingue)

"Letters to a Young Poet" (1929), now in a bilingual edition with a postscript by José Miranda Justo, brings together ten letters published posthumously and sent over five years by Rainer Maria Rilke to Franz Xaver Kappus, a young soldier seeking to take his first steps in poetry. In this vital compendium on the poet's craft, the lyrical intensity and touching humility of his lines sublimely merge with reflections on poetic creation, giving shape to a way of life guided by rigor and integrity. "Letters to a Young Poet" will endure as a meditation on the poet's position in the modern world and as a lesson in uncompromising independence, in a world where man increasingly loses himself in the crowd.

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the greatest German-language poets of the 20th century. A confirmed loner, he led a wandering and unstable life, from his dandyish days in his native Prague to his travels through Russia, his spiritual homeland, Egypt, Italy, and Spain. He befriended some of the most important creators of his time, especially Auguste Rodin, whose secretary he was. Author of several poetry collections, including "The Sonnets to Orpheus" (1922) and "The Duino Elegies" (1923), correspondence, and prose, his masterful work, as lyrical as it is mystical, took on the contours of a profound reflection on the search for transcendence.