Letters on Cezanne (Paperback)

Rainer Rilke

ISBN 10: 086547639X / ISBN 13: 9780865476394

Editore: North Point Press, Berkeley, California, 2002

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Paperback. Rilke's prayerful responses to the french master's beseeching art For a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes. Virtually every day in the fall of 1907, Rainer Maria Rilke returned to a Paris gallery to view a Cezanne exhibition. Nearly as frequently, he wrote dense and joyful letters to his wife, Clara Westhoff, expressing his dismay before the paintings and his ensuing revelations about art and life. Rilke was knowledgeable about art and had even published monographs, including a famous study of Rodin that inspired his New Poems. But Cezanne's impact on him could not be conveyed in a traditional essay. Rilke's sense of kinship with Cezanne provides a powerful and prescient undercurrent in these letters -- passages from them appear verbatim in Rilke's great modernist novel, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Letters on Cezanne is a collection of meaningfully private responses to a radically new art. Rilke's prayerful responses to the french master's beseeching art "For a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes." Virtually every day in the fall of 1907, Rainer Maria Rilke returned to a Paris gallery to view a Cezanne exhibition. Nearly as frequently, he wrote dense and joyful letters to his wife, Clara Westhoff, expressing his dismay before the paintings and his ensuing revelations about art and life. Rilke was knowledgeable about art and had even published monographs, including a famous study of Rodin that inspired his "New Poems." But Cezanne's impact on him could not be conveyed in a traditional essay. Rilke's sense of kinship with Cezanne provides a powerful and prescient undercurrent in these letters — passages from them appear verbatim in Rilke's great modernist novel, "The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge." "Letters on Cezanne" is a collection of meaningfully private responses to a radically new art. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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• Titolo: Letters on Cezanne (Paperback)
• Editore: North Point Press, Berkeley, California
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 086547639X
• ISBN 13: 9780865476394
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Edizione: seconda edizione
• Condizione: new

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Riassunto

Le risposte di preghiera di Rilke alle suppliche dell'arte del maestro francese Per molto tempo niente, e poi all'improvviso si hanno gli occhi giusti. Praticamente ogni giorno nell'autunno del 1907, Rainer Maria Rilke tornava in una galleria di Parigi per vedere una mostra di Cézanne. Quasi con la stessa frequenza, scriveva lettere dense e gioiose alla moglie, Clara Westhoff, esprimendo il suo sgomento di fronte ai dipinti e le sue conseguenti rivelazioni sull'arte e sulla vita. Rilke era un esperto d'arte e aveva persino pubblicato monografie, tra cui un famoso studio su Rodin che ispirò le sue Nuove poesie. Ma l'impatto di Cézanne su di lui non poteva essere trasmesso in un saggio tradizionale. Il senso di parentela di Rilke con Cézanne fornisce una potente e lungimirante corrente sotterranea in queste lettere: alcuni passaggi di esse appaiono letteralmente nel grande romanzo modernista di Rilke, I quaderni di Malte Laurids Brigge. Lettere su Cezanne è una raccolta di risposte significativamente private a un'arte radicalmente nuova.

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Rainer Maria Rilke (1975-1926) was born in Prague and traveled throughout Europe, returning frequently to Paris, where he wrote his finest works: the two volumes of New Poems and the great modernist novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. He lived the last years of his life in Switzerland, where he completed his two poetic masterworks, the Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus.

Joel Agee has translated Elias Canetti, Friedrich Dürenmatt, and Gottfried Benn. He won the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for his work on Heinrich von Kleist's verse play Penthesilea. He is the author of Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany.

Rainer Maria Rilke (1975-1926) was born in Prague and traveled throughout Europe, returning frequently to Paris, where he wrote his finest works: the two volumes of New Poems and the great modernist novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. He lived the last years of his life in Switzerland, where he completed his two poetic masterworks, the Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus.

Joel Agee has translated Elias Canetti, Friedrich Dürenmatt, and Gottfried Benn. He won the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for his work on Heinrich von Kleist's verse play Penthesilea. He is the author of Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany.