A Ringing Glass : The Life of Rainer Maria Rilke

基本信息

Series:Clarendon Paperbacks

Format:Hardback 512 pages, frontispiece, halftone plates

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Imprint:Clarendon Press

ISBN:9780198158912

Published: 3 Mar 1994

Classifications:German, Biography: general, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: poetry & poets

Readership:General (US: Trade) Professional & Vocational Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Undergraduate

Weight:772g

Dimensions:232 x 164 x 28 (mm)

Pub. Country:United Kingdom

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

这是一部关于Rainer Maria Rilke(1875-1926)的著名传记，他堪称本世纪非常伟大的抒情诗人。里尔克出生在布拉格，但他的游牧生活带领他穿越了德国、俄罗斯、西班牙、意大利和法国，直到他死于白血病在瑞士。他把自己的全部精力都放在了艺术上，同时也接受了欧洲文化的各种影响。

他在亚斯纳亚·波利亚纳拜访托尔斯泰，曾做过一段时间罗丹的秘书，也是罗曼·罗兰、列昂尼德·帕斯捷尔纳克和沃尔特·拉泰瑙的朋友。他是玛丽·凡·瑟恩·恩德斯塔克丝公主的门徒，也是卢·安德鲁斯-萨洛美和芭拉丁·克劳斯索斯卡的情人。然而，他一心一意地寻找他工作所需要的孤独，以至于在他同时代的许多人看来，他像是一个远离世界的诗人。

他的诗歌成就——《新诗》、《对唱挽歌》和《俄耳甫斯之歌》——以及散文诗《短号》和令人惊叹的《Malte Laurids Brigge》，在欧洲文学中留下了不朽的印记。

根据最近的文献证据，《鸣响的杯子》对这种最复杂的生活进行了引人注目的描述，显示了在这项工作的成就背后隐藏着什么样的人，以及工作反过来在里尔克的生活中所扮演的角色。

This is a celebrated biography of Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), prehaps the greatest lyric poet of this century. Rilke was born in Prague, but his nomadic existence led him through Germany, Russia, Spain, Italy, and France, until his death in Switzerland from leukaemia. Uniquely, he dedicated himself exclusively to his art while remaining receptive to the most varied influences of European culture.

He visited Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana, acted for a time as secretary to Rodin, and was a friend o Romain Rolland, Leonid Pasternak, and Walter Rathenau. He was the protege of Princess Marie van Thurn undTaxis, and the lover of Lou Andreas-Salome and Baladine Klossowska. Yet he was single-minded in his search for the solitude he needed for his work, so much so that he seemed to many of his contemporaries to be a poet remote from the world.

His poetic achievement - the New Poems, the Duino Elegies theSonnets to Orpheus - and in prose the Cornet and the astonishing Malte Laurids Brigge, were works that made a lasting mark on European literature. Drawing on recent documentary evidence, A Ringing Glass is a compelling account of this most complex of lives, showing what manner of man lay behind the achievement of the work, and the part that work in turn played in Rilke's life.

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“自从60年前拉尼尔•玛利亚•里尔克去世以来，里尔克的声誉得到了极大提升:即使在英语世界，他现在也与叶芝(W.B. Yeats)一起被列为本世纪重要的诗人……唐纳德·普拉特的新里尔克传记——这是里尔克写过的完整、详细的传记——强调了里尔克的独特性……《鸣响的杯子》是迄今为止非常好的传记作品，讲述了一个男人决心生活在自己最孤独的前哨，并从那里为每个人带回了战利品。”——旧金山纪事报

“唐纳德·普拉特对我们了解这位杰出的诗人做出了重大贡献，他为俄耳甫斯谱写了新诗和十四行诗……记录翔实、文笔优美、呈现精美的传记。”——《图书馆杂志》

“唐纳德·普拉特……仿佛活到了那个时代，那个地方，那个诗人和他的诗……这本书非常有趣，很有价值。”——Book Forum

“这本书充满了关于里尔克的有趣细节……但更重要的是，普拉特成功地捕捉到了里尔克生活中快乐的时刻和深深的绝望的时刻，这极大地影响了里尔克的艺术创造力，从而影响了他的作品。这些引语大多来自他的信件，由普拉特精心挑选和翻译。对里尔克学术的宝贵补充。”——outhern Humanities Reviews

“这是一部精明而权威的传记。”——《基督教科学箴言报》

"The reputation of Ranier Maria Rilke has enlarged enormously since his death 60 years ago: Even in the English-speaking world, he is now ranked, along with W.B. Yeats, as the major poet of the century....Donald Prater's new biography of Rilke--the most complete, detailed biography of Rilke ever written--underscores Rilke's uniqueness....A Ringing Glass is the best biographical account, so far, of a man determined to live on the loneliest outpost of the self and who brought back from there trophies for everyone."--San Francisco Chronicle

"A major contribution to our understanding of the man who stands behind such extraordinary poetic achievements as the New Poems [and] Sonnets to Orpheus....[A] well-documented, eloquently written, and beautifully presented biography."--Library Journal

"Donald Prater...seems truly alive to the time and place, the poet and his poetry....This book is intensely interesting and rewarding."--Book Forum

"The book is filled with interesting details about Rilke....More importantly, however, Prater succeeds in capturing the euphoric moments as well as times of deep despair in Rilke's life, which greatly affected his artistic creativity and thus his works. The quotes, mostly taken from his letters, are well-chosen and well-translated by Prater....A valuable addition to Rilke scholarship."--Southern Humanities Reviews

"A shrewd and authoritative biography."--The Christian Science Monitor

作者简介

唐纳德·普拉特是斯特凡·茨威格传记《昨天的欧洲》的作者，他所出版的里尔克-茨威格书信的版本不久将在德国出版。

Donald Prater is the author of European of Yesterday, a biography of Stefan Zweig, and his edition of the Rilke-Zweig correspondence will appear shortly in Germany.