Rilke: Bio Novel by Farrol Kahn HARDBACK 9783952420867

Rilke: Bio Novel\nby Farrol Kahn\nHardback\nUnknown\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Farrol Kahn\nTitle: Rilke: Bio Novel\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: Unknown\nTopic: Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction\nPublisher: Farrol Kahn GmbH\nPublication year: 2021\nISBN-13: 9783952420867\nISBN-10: 3952420867\nRRP: \u00A339.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThe 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.\n\""Farrol Kahn's superb novel...lends the subject a truly Proustian .