Dear Friend: Rainer Maria Rilke and Paula Modersohn-Becker - Hardcover

Torgersen, Eric

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810115670 ISBN 13: 9780810115675

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 1998

Synopsis

This work provides an exploration of the personal and professional relationship between artists Rainer Maria Rilke and Paula Modersohn-Becker.

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Review:

"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 "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 "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

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0810115670
• ISBN 13: 9780810115675
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256