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The End and the Beginning
by Rainis
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The End and the Beginning is considered Rainis’s most significant poetry collection. It forms a conceptual whole and the phrase connecting each section – “I flow, I flow” – reflects notions of continuous motion, renewal, and transformation.
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Rainis (né Jānis Pliekšāns, 1865 – 1929) is a prominent Latvian poet, playwright, translator, and politician. In 1897 Rainis was arrested and deported. It was during this period of internal exile that Rainis translated Goethe's Faust together with Aspazija, works by William Shakespeare, Friedrich Schiller, Heinrich Heine, Aleksandr Pushkin, et al. These translations greatly revitalized Latvian language by introducing neologisms and coining expressions, and are still among the most important works shaping the modern Latvian literary language. In his plays Rainis used motifs from folklore as symbols for his political ideals. Due to the failure of the Revolution in 1905, he had to emigrate to Switzerland with his wife Aspazija, settling in Castagnola, Lugano, where he wrote plays and poetry. He returned home in1920, to a now independent Latvia, where he was elected to the Saeima (Parliament), worked as minister of education and director of the National Theatre.
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- Publisher Zvaigzne ABC
- Publication Date January 1912
- Orginal LanguageLatvian
- ISBN/Identifier 9789934052392
- Pages99
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleGals un sākums
- Copyright Year2015
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