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Violence
Barely any
No violence
Language
Barely any
Formal early 20th-century literary prose in translation
Sexual Content
Barely any
No sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
None
Emotional Intensity
Some
The weight of the genuinely difficult questions that Rilke insists you must live rather than answer
What this book is about
Rilke's ten letters to Franz Kappus, a young military officer who had asked for feedback on his poems, became one of the most beloved pieces of artistic and life advice in Western literature—about solitude, love, creativity, the questions that cannot be answered, and what it means to live honestly.
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