{"product_id":"letters-on-cezanne-paperback","title":"Letters on Cézanne - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRainer Maria Rilke\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJoel Agee\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRilke's prayerful responses to the french master's beseeching art\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVirtually 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRilke was knowledgeable about art and had even published monographs, including a famous study of Rodin that inspired his \u003ci\u003eNew Poems\u003c\/i\u003e. 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eLetters on Cezanne\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of meaningfully private responses to a radically new art.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRainer Maria Rilke\u003c\/b\u003e (1975-1926) was born in Prague and traveled throughout Europe, returning frequently to Paris, where he wrote his finest works: the two volumes of \u003ci\u003eNew Poems \u003c\/i\u003e and the great modernist novel \u003ci\u003eThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.\u003c\/i\u003e He lived the last years of his life in Switzerland, where he completed his two poetic masterworks, the \u003ci\u003eDuino Elegies\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSonnets to Orpheus.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoel Agee\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ePenthesilea\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eTwelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44812839321702,"sku":"9780865476394","price":24.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/MDhhWDFBcHcvMERZMElRemtoUWRMdz09.webp?v=1771750505","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/letters-on-cezanne-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}