For the centenary of his death, La Croix invites you to discover or rediscover, every week, the life and work of the great Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke. In The Book of Poverty and Death, Rainer Maria Rilke pursues the always grave and tormented quest for his relationship with a God whom he tries to formulate, inspired by the sculptor Rodin, through the figure of Saint Francis of Assisi.
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For the centenary of his death, La Croix invites you to discover or rediscover, every week, the life and work of the great Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke. In The Book of Poverty and Death, Rainer Maria Rilke pursues the always grave and tormented quest for his relationship with a God whom he tries to formulate, inspired by the sculptor Rodin, through the figure of Saint Francis of Assisi.