{"product_id":"dear-friend-rainer-maria-rilke-and-paula-modersohn-becker","title":"Dear Friend: Rainer Maria Rilke and Paula Modersohn-Becker","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Eric Torgersen \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"It was not until I read \u003cem\u003eRequiem for a Friend\u003c\/em\u003e 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\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"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.\"—\u003cem\u003eChoice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"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, \u003cem\u003eUniversity of Chicago\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1908, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote \u003cem\u003eRequiem for a Friend\u003c\/em\u003e in memory of Paula Moderson-Becker, the German painter who had profoundly affected him and who had died a year earlier. Although one of the great modern painters, Modersohn-Becker is remembered primarily as she is portrayed in Rilke's poem. \u003cem\u003eDear Friend\u003c\/em\u003e looks at the relationship of two great artists whose often-strained friendship was extraordinarily productive for both.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback \u003cbr\u003e276 pages\u003cbr\u003eNorthwestern University Press, 2000\u003cbr\u003e6 x 0.8 x 9 inches\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9780810118195\u003cbr\u003eBiography, Letters, Poetry  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":27857191764040,"sku":"9780810118195","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/Dear-Friend_Rilke_Modersohn-Becker.jpg?v=1635706060","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/dear-friend-rainer-maria-rilke-and-paula-modersohn-becker","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}