Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Stephen Mitchell) has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 4 ratings. The most-rated is Letters to a Young Poet.
Letters to a Young Poet
Summary
Ranier Maria Rilke challenges you, "...to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answers." Rilke's ability to combine the sensual and the spiritual into an inspired vision of the art of living is brought to vivid life in his letters. Through his eyes, the everyday difficulties of love, sex, solitude, sadness, and doubt are seen as the archetypal elements of the drama called life.
Recording (P)1990 by Audio Literature; Copyright ©1984 by Stephen Mitchell
Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus
Summary
The poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke addresses the issues of God, death, and "destructive time." Rilke tries to transform these problems into an inner world, what he calls "a whole inner world as if an angel, comprehending all space, were blind and looking into himself." Eminent author and translator Stephen Mitchell brings these ideas vividly to life in this new translation of Rilke's most transcendent works.
Recording (P)1997 by Audio Literature; Copyright ©1995 by Stephen Mitchell