Subject: Re: DDSBP Rilke and Rodin
From: citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Date: Tue Feb 15 2000 - 13:18:32 EST
I know this is obsessive, but feel I should report that, while leafing
through DDSBP last night, I saw another Rilke connection.
The narrator, in one of his fibs, talks about Picasso walking across his
[Picasso's] studio to look at a small reproduction of his painting "Les
Saltimbanques."
In 1915, Rilke, who had been forced to leave Paris for Germany because of
the war, was staying in Munich in the apartment of a friend who owned the
painting "Les Saltimbanques." ("... sitting here in the apartment of friends
(who have gone to the country) with the finest Picasso ("Les
Saltimbanques"), in which there is so much Paris that, for moments, I
forget.") The Fifth Duino Elegy (which deals with saltimbanques) is
dedicated to the owner who allowed Rilke to live with the painting for four
months.
AND the first American edition of The Duino Elegies, published by Norton &
Co. in 1939, has a small reproduction of "Les Saltimbanques" as a
frontispiece.
--Bruce
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