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Rilke : Bio Novel, Hardback Book

Rilke : Bio Novel Hardback

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The book is the story of a tragic love affair. Rilke who has devoted his whole life to being a poet has hit a creative block.

Despondent, he is on the verge of leaving Switzerland when he meets Elisabeth Klossowska in 1920.

She becomes his lover and muse and finds a tower for him to complete his great poems, the Duino Elegies.

He dies six years later at the age of 50 from leukaemia. "Farrol Kahn's superb novel...lends the subject a truly Proustian perspective..It stirs and sustains the reader's involvement throughout...The animation of Rilke...is carried out brilliantly." Ralph Freedman.

Author of definitive biography - Life of a Poet:Rainer Maria Rilke. "I've read the excerpt and I must say: absolutely brilliant!"Oskar Freysinger, Swiss writer

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