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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook model of Characters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, read by Max Deacon and Dan Stevens. In the beginning of the 20th century, Rainer Maria Rilke had written a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, gender, suffering and the nature of advice itself; these deep and lyrical characters have since become hugely influential for writers and artists of most kinds. This e book also contains the 'Letter from a Young Staff member', a striking polemic against Christianity written in notice form near to the end of Rilke's life. In Lewis Hyde's launch, he explores the context where these characters were written and how the publisher embraced his isolation as an innovative pressure. Charlie Louth's afterword talks about the similarities and contrasts of the two works and Rilke's religious and erotic wordplay. This edition also contains a chronology, records, and suggested further reading.
