Publication
New York, Norton c1963.
Call number
TS / Rilke
ISBN
0393001547 / 9780393001549
Original publication date
1899 (original German)
2003 (English: Kohn)
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CSS Library Notes
short stories , children :
Physical description
139 p.; 20 cm
Description
Composed in 1899 when Rilke was only twenty-three, the interconnected tales of Stories of God were inspired by a trip to Russia the young poet had made the year previously. It is said that the vastness of the Russian landscape and the profound spirituality he perceived in the simple people he met led him to an experience of finding God in all things, and to the conviction that God seeks to be known by us as passionately as we might seek to know God. All the great themes of Rilke's later powerful and complex poetry can be found in the Stories of God , yet their charming, folktale-like quality has made them among the most accessible of Rilke's works, beloved by all ages.
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LibraryThing member jorgearanda
Playful stories of a naive, constrained, everyday God. I'm not sure if it's the translation, but the prose was sadly bland and gray.