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Critique
Published on July 26, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.
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“(…) we are only the bark and the leaf”
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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 continues the quest, always serious and tormented, for his relationship with a God that he tries to formulate, inspired by the sculptor Rodin, through the figure of Saint Francis of Assisi.
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