I had this collection of epistolary a distorted, false (the fault of the extracts selected most often in quotes?).
Strangely I thought those famous "Letters to a Young Poet" ever read in full, were a recognized writer lesson supposed to "discourage" the young poets (just) to initiate, inconsistently, in writing. While there is really nothing ...
Rilke's letters are full, in fact, humanity, gentleness and "encouragement".
They result from his interest in another young poet, apprentice, Franz Kappus who, at the age of twenty, decided to send his poetic attempts to Rainer Maria Rilke and seek his judgment. This started a regular correspondence between the two men which lasted until 1908. These ten letters will be published in 1929, three years after the death of their author.
Rilke, in his correspondence, especially the young poet returns budding Kappus, his solitude, the only possible place for him to create and self-knowledge.
