Subject: Re: DDSBP Rilke and Rodin
From: citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Date: Mon Feb 14 2000 - 12:18:35 EST
Diego,
You are definitely onto something! Yes, I _would_ say Rainer Maria Rilke's
relationship with Rodin figures in _de D-S_. (I myself would never have
thought of it.) And as we know from _The Inverted Forest_, JDS was quite
aware of Rodin in RMR's life. There, JDS says Corinne has a Rodin which
once belonged to Clara Rilke. (Interestingly, JDS connects the Rodin with
RMR's wife. In historical fact, Clara, before she met Rainer, was a student
of Rodin's.)
As for the Rilke-Rodin letters, they exist in French. Five of them are
translated into English in the must-have volume: _ Letters of Rainer Maria
Rilke 1892-1910_, translated by Jane Greene and our old friend M.D. Herter
Norton, published by Norton & Co., 1945. Actually, what is more revealing
about the RMR-Rodin relationship are the series of letters Rainer wrote
Clara about Rodin. These start in September of 1902. The 9/02/02 letter,
for example, describes the strange atmospherics of having lunch with Rodin
and his wife at their home, Meudon. Rodin continues to have first-place
influence in RMR's life from fall of '02 up to fall '07 (and appears
frequently in his letters). And yes, Paul is correct that RMR worked for a
time as Rodin's secretary. Rilke's two essays on Rodin are available in
English in _Where Silence Reigns: Selected Prose of RMR_.
--Bruce
-----Original Message-----
From: Diego M. Dell'Era <dellerad@sinectis.com.ar>
To: bananafish@roughdraft.org <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
Date: Saturday, February 12, 2000 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: Feet, Rilke
> Well, this is not related to feet, really. I wanted to ask Matt,
>Bruce or Paul if they thought there is a connection between
>Rilke's letters to Rodin and de Daumier-Smith. There is the
>student-teacher relationship, the feeling of isolation when
>abroad, and most striking of all, the insistent worries about
>Rodin's wife who seems to be under an undescribable pain,
>like Mrs. Yoshoto.
>
>diego d.
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