| RAINER MARIA RILKE (1875 - 1926) is considered one of the greatest German-language writers to have ever lived. He is best known for his Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus and The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. VITA SACKVILLE-WEST (1892-1962) was an English novelist, poet and garden designer. Born to an aristocratic family in the Kent countryside, she became a prolific and succesful author, publishing many novels and a dozen volumes of poetry. Lesley Chamberlain is a British writer and critic who has written extensively on German and Russian literature and published three novels. Her books include The Philosophy Steamer: Lenin and the Exile of the Intelligentsia, The Secret Artist: A Close Reading of Sigmund Freud and Motherland: a Philosophical History of Russia. Nietzsche in Turin is also available from Pushkin Press. EDWARD SACKVILLE-WEST (1901-65) was an English novelist and music critic who, in his later years, became a member of the House of Lords. He wrote several well-received books and won the James Tait Black Memoiral Prize. |
