Dear friend. Rainer Maria Rilke and Paula Modersohn-Becker.

Rilke, Rainer Maria - Torgersen, Eric.

ISBN 10: 0810115670 / ISBN 13: 9780810115675

Published by Evanston Northwestern University Press 1998, 1998

About this Item

Gr.-8° VIII, 276 S. m. einigen Abbildungen. Orig.-Pappband mit Orig.-Umschlag. Erste Ausgabe. - Mit einer Widmung des Autors für den langjährigen Direktor der Kunsthalle Bremen Günter Busch. - Umschlag u. Einband mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren. - First edition. With an inscription by the author.

Seller Inventory # 64202

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dear friend. Rainer Maria Rilke and Paula Modersohn-Becker.
• Publisher: Evanston Northwestern University Press 1998
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810115670
• ISBN 13: 9780810115675
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literatur

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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.