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.

A masterly new translation of one of the first great modernist novels. In the only novel by one of the German languageas greatest poets, a young man named Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris while his belongings rot in storage. Every person he sees seems to carry their death with them, and with little but a library card to distinguish him from the cityas untouchables, he thinks of the deaths, and ghosts, of his aristocratic family, of which he is the sole living descendant. Suffused with passages of lyrical brilliance, Rilke as semi-autobiographical novel is a moving and powerful coming-of-age story

http://www.saxa-verlag.de/bhsb1.htm http://www.saxa-verlag.de/sb1_inhalt.htm Der Inhalt Inhaltsverzeichnis Vorwort I. Einleitung I. Kindheitserinnerungen III. Rußland IV. Haseldorf - Dänemark - Schweden V. Paris - Frankreich - Provence VI. Zusammenfassung VII. Manuskripte VIII. Textkritische Untersuchungen zu den 'Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge' IX. Lesarten der zu Rilkes Lebzeiten erschienenen Ausgaben X. Chronologische Bibliographie zugänglicher Ausgaben, Übersetzungen und Sekundärliteratur zu den 'Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge' XI. Literaturverzeichnis XII. Verzeichnis der im Text angeführten Personennamen XIII. Verzeichnis der im Text angeführten Ortsnamen XIV. Varia: Begriffe, die im Text vorkommen XV. Verzeichnis der Abbildungen