{"product_id":"where-silence-reigns","title":"Where Silence Reigns","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eWhere Silence Reigns\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eRainer Maria Rilke\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e0811206971\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eNew Directions\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1978\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eThird Printing Used\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e164\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eWhere Silence Reigns, a sampling from his essays, notebooks, and letters, shows Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), the pre-eminent modern poet of solitude and inwardness, seeking to reconcile his personal conflict between the claims of \"life\" and the claims of art. His subjects are commonplace, seemingly innocuous at times: the encounter between a man and a dog, a collection of dolls, a walk among trees. But always the deceptively simple external phenomenon is seen as the symbol, the catalyst of an intensely felt inner experience. As he confided to his friend Frau Wunderly-Volkart: \"Oh, how often one longs to speak a few degrees more deeply! My prose... lies deeper... but one gets only a minimal layer further down; one's left with a mere intimation of the kind of speech that may be possible THERE where silence reigns.\" In addition to occasional pieces and notebook entries, this volume contains selections from the strange and haunting \"Dream-Book,\" the lyrical \"Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke,\" and the entire \"Rodin-Book\"--Rilke's appreciation of the great sculptor whom he had served as secretary.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"New Directions","offers":[{"title":"Where Silence Reigns | Rainer Maria Rilke | Paperback | 0811206971 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks E 1742716","offer_id":48180158070936,"sku":"1742716","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/51EqZR6F27L.jpg?v=1772215527","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/where-silence-reigns","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}