Name: Reflexion der Stunden
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ISBN: 9783835361423

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A current overall interpretation of Rilke's famous early work against the backdrop of an in-depth history of readings

"The Book of Hours" establishes Rilke's fame. This cycle marks the beginning of his worldwide, significant reception, in which Rilke was initially regarded as a religious poet. To this day, research on this work is conditioned by its initial reception. As a document of a religious worldview, "The Book of Hours" stands in the shadow of the much more extensively researched middle and late works. Benjamin Krutzky demonstrates through a continuous reading of all the poems that they are not prayers. Rather, a gradual, almost methodical restraint can be observed: a retreat first from the definitions of God and then also a retreat from insisting on a divine encounter. This restraint is achieved through the processes of critique, commentary, and imagination of poetically created figures. With this linguistic modesty towards transcendent figures, the work points to the skepticism that characterizes the later works. Not least, Krutzky's study, using documents from the poet's estate, corrects the interpretation of the title, whose hyphen undermines the simple reference to the lay breviary. Thus, the "hours" emerge as moments and places of productivity that are interrogated in the cycle regarding their conditions.

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