Dear Friend: Rainer Maria Rilke and Paula Modersohn-Becker
Autor Eric Torgersenen Limba Engleză Paperback – apr 2000
In 1908, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote "Requiem for a Friend" in memory of Paula Modersohn-Becker, the German painter who had profoundly affected him and who had died a year earlier. Although a great modern painter, Modersohn-Becker is remembered primarily as she is portrayed in Rilke's poem. Dear Friend looks at the relationship of two great artists whose often-strained friendship was extraordinary for both.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780810118195
ISBN-10: 081011819X
Pagini: 276
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
ISBN-10: 081011819X
Pagini: 276
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
Notă biografică
ERIC TORGERSEN has published five volumes of poetry, two novellas, and the NBA-nominated Dear Friend: Rainer Maria Rilke and Paula Modersohn-Becker. Born in Huntington, New York, he has a BA in German Literature from Cornell and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Iowa. He spent two years in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia (a time he draws on for the novella entitled Ethiopia). He has retired after forty years of teaching, thirty-eight of them at Central Michigan University. He lives in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, with his wife, the quilt artist Ann Kowaleski, and now writes almost daily when not traveling.
Cuprins
Acknowledgments
Dear Friend
Notes
Bibliography
Appendix: Requiem for a Friend
Index
Dear Friend
Notes
Bibliography
Appendix: Requiem for a Friend
Index
Recenzii
"It was not until I read 'Requiem for a Friend' in Eric Torgersen's translation that I understood what a great and tragic poem it is: guilt-ridden, impassioned, intimate, a sublimated howl. Torgersen's version is one of those rare complete successes in the absolutely impossible art of translation." —Galway Kinnell
"A brilliant and valuable study, written with grace and passion, Torgesen's work could scarcely be bettered, both for the delight of reading it provides and for the insights into the lives it exposes." —Choice
"As a guide through the intersecting lives and relevant work of Rilke, Modersohn-Becker, and Westhoff, this study has qualitatively and in its focus no parallel in either English or German." —Reinhold Heller, University of Chicago
Descriere
In 1908, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote "Requiem for a Friend" in memory of Paula Modersohn-Becker, the German painter who had profoundly affected him and who had died a year earlier. Although a great modern painter, Modersohn-Becker is remembered primarily as she is portrayed in Rilke's poem. Dear Friend looks at the relationship of two great artists whose often-strained friendship was extraordinary for both.