| | Rainer Maria Rilke -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | In 1898 Rilke undertook a journey lasting several weeks to (A republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD) Italy. |
 | | At the same time his encounter with modernism was very stimulating: Rilke got deeply involved in the sculptures of Auguste Rodin and then with the work of the painter (French postimpressionist painter who influenced modern art (especially cubism) by stressing the structural components latent in nature (1839-1906)) Paul Cezanne (1839-1906). |
 | | Rilke has also been feted in (United States writer of pessimistic novels about life in a technologically advanced society (born in 1937)) Thomas Pynchon's (additional info and facts about Gravity's Rainbow) Gravity's Rainbow and (additional info and facts about William Gaddis) William Gaddis' voluminous novel The Recognitions. |
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