Rainer Maria Rilke

of the 1986 film of the same name; both are based on the 1974 play Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mamet. Both films differ from the play by substituting a reconciliation of the couple at the end rather than a break-up. The great poet Rainer Maria Rilke, knew and acknowledged this truth when he wrote, nearly…

largely unpopular (Nagy 1997, 113). However, eventually Kierkegaard was translated into Russian at the tail end of the Nineteenth century. Partially due to the rise in popularity of Ibsen’s Brandt in Russia and partially due to connections to Rainer Maria Rilke and his newfound interest in Kierkegaard, Kierkegaard’s works began translation in the late 1880’s. The first Russian publications came in the mid 1890’s, as discovered by Piama Gaidenko’s study of Kierkegaard (Malkolkin 2002, 80, 87;…

Claudia Emerson was a southern girl from Virginia. While in Virginia, she ran a used book store in Danville(Langer).She always had an interest in writing, but didn’t become inspired to write until she read books by Rainer Maria Rilke and May Sarton. The bookstore is where she spent some of her time writing. Later, she perfected her writing by attending the University of Virginia, where she eventually graduated with a bachelor 's degree in English. She later died from colon cancer. In the poem,…