Letters on Cezanne

Rilke, Rainer Maria; Rilke, Clara (Edited by), and Agee, Joel (Translated by)

ISBN 10: 088064107X / ISBN 13: 9780880641074

Published by Fromm International Publishing Corporation, New York, 1986

About this Item

xxvi, 98 pages; 21 cm. Translation of Briefe uber Cezanne. Good+. One sentenced highlighted. Size: 8vo.

Seller Inventory # 106616

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Letters on Cezanne
• Publisher: Fromm International Publishing Corporation, New York
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 088064107X
• ISBN 13: 9780880641074
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2nd.
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • A BARGAIN BASEMENT
  • XS::Small
  • Movements::Post-Impressionism
  • European::French

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Synopsis

This collection "says more about art than any other book I know . . . These letters distill the essence of what a painting truly is . . . The greatness of Cezanne could be conveyed only by an artist equally great."--The New Yorker.

About the Author

Rainer Maria Rilke was born in Prague in 1875 and traveled throughout Europe for much of his adult life, returning frequently to Paris. There he came under the influence of the sculptor Auguste Rodin and produced much of his finest verse, most notably the two volumes of New Poems as well as the great modernist novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Among his other books of poems are The Book of Images and The Book of Hours. He lived the last years of his life in Switzerland, where he completed his two poetic masterworks, the Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus. He died of leukemia in December 1926.

Joel Agee has also translated Elias Canetti, Friedrich Dürenmatt, Gottfried Benn, and another collection of Rilke's letters, Rilke and Benvenuta: An Intimate Correspondence. He won the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for his translation of Heinrich von Kleist's Penthesilea, a verse play. He is the author of Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany and lives in Brooklyn.