Dear Friend: Rainer Maria Rilke and Paula Modersohn-Becker

Torgersen, Eric

ISBN 10: 081011819X / ISBN 13: 9780810118195

Published by Northwestern University Press, 2000

About this Item

This work provides an exploration of the personal and professional relationship between the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and the painter Paula Modersohn-Becker, whose death inspired Rilke's greatest work "Requiem for a friend". Num Pages: 296 pages, photographs, reproductions. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AB; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404. . 2000. New ed. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Seller Inventory # V9780810118195

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dear Friend: Rainer Maria Rilke and Paula Modersohn-Becker
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 081011819X
• ISBN 13: 9780810118195
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

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.

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.