Rilke
Bio Novel
Published on 18. March 2021
Book
Hardback
800 pages
978-3-9524208-6-7 (ISBN)
Description
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
"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
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Strichen
Swaziland
Illustrations
Two pencil drawings & one watercolour
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 153 mm
ISBN-13
978-3-9524208-6-7 (9783952420867)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
This is Farrol Kahn's first foray into fiction after 12 books on non-fiction. Rilke, a biographical novel was a major work and has taken him a decade to complete. It involved following the German poet's tracks in Switzerland and giving talks to the Rilke associations in Germany while still a work-in-progress. Recently, he has founded the Swiss World Art Forum in Gstaad which promotes art philanthropy. It encourages arts-led activities to enrich lives of others.