Letters on Cézanne - 2nd Edition by Rainer Maria Rilke (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Rilke's prayerful responses to the french master's beseeching art</b> <p/><i>For a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes.</i> <p/>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. <p/>Rilke was knowledgeable about art and had even published monographs, including a famous study of Rodin that inspired his <i>New Poems</i>. 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, <i>The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge</i>. <i>Letters on Cezanne</i> is a collection of meaningfully private responses to a radically new art.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"The greatness of Cezanne could be conveyed only by an artist equally great." --<i>Howard Moss, The New Yorker</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Rainer Maria Rilke</b> (1975-1926) was born in Prague and traveled throughout Europe, returning frequently to Paris, where he wrote his finest works: the two volumes of <i>New Poems </i> and the great modernist novel <i>The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.</i> He lived the last years of his life in Switzerland, where he completed his two poetic masterworks, the <i>Duino Elegies</i> and <i>Sonnets to Orpheus.</i> <p/><b>Joel Agee</b> 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 <i>Penthesilea</i>. He is the author of <i>Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany</i>.</p>
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