Lost Son
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Unbridled Books
Published: May 20, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 478
ISBN-13: 9781932961348
Subjects: American Historical Fiction; Fiction; Fiction - General; Literary; Fiction / General; Paris, Latin quarter; Rilke; Historical - General; 1840-1917; 1875-1926; Quartier latin (Paris, France); Rilke, Rainer Maria,; Rodin, Auguste,
Description: This is a novelization of the life of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. An account of Rilke's baptism gives over to a chronicle of his time in Paris, where he ruminates on life and befriends sculptor Auguste Rodin. From Rodin's residence, the narrative episodically follows Rilke from his days as a sickly military cadet and his meeting the writer Lou Andreas-Salome-his muse with whom he travels widely- and eventually to the double heartbreak of Rilke's father's death and his final parting with Rodin.