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Auguste Rodin
[Hardback - 2004]
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Sub-category: Literary Criticism
Publisher: Archipelago | ISBN: 9780972869256 | Pages: 88
Shipping Weight: .618 | Dimensions: 8.3 x .7 x 9.8 inches

Sculptor Auguste Rodin was fortunate to have his secretary Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the most sensitive poets of our time. These two pieces discussing Rodin's work and development as an artist are as revealing of Rilke as they are of his subject. Written in 1902 and 1907, these essays mark the entry of the poet into the world of letters. Rilke's description of Rodin reveals the profound psychic connection between the two great artists, both masters of giving visible life to the invisible. Michael Eastman's evocative photographs of Rodin's sculptures shed light on both Rodin's art and Rilke's thoughts and catapult them into the 21st century.

A mystic lyricism and precise imagery often marked verse of German poetRainer Maria Rilke, whose collections profoundly influenced 20th-century German literature and includeThe Book of Hours(1905) andThe Duino Elegies(1923).People consider him of the greatest 20th century users of the language.His haunting images tend to focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety — themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets.His two most famous sequences include theSonnets to Orpheus, and his most famous prose works include theLetters to a Young Poetand the semi-autobiographicalThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.He also wrote more than four hundred poems in French, dedicated to the canton of Valais in Switzerland, his homeland of choice.

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