Subject: Re: A Perfect Day for German Poetry
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 08 2001 - 09:53:09 GMT
Cool...I didn't know that about Rilke :) That's a good point about
Muriel. I think we can trust her to know the poems were originally in
German (she repeats Seymour telling her to learn German to read the poet, I
think), but I don't know that we can trust her about the poet's name,
nationality, etc.
Jim
Cecilia Baader wrote:
>
> --- Jim Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu> wrote:
> > I think he was referring to Rilke. Kierkegaard wasn't German or really
> > a poet, and Kafka was better known for his novels and stories (besides
> > being Czech, though he wrote in German).
>
> Rilke was a Czech, too, though he wrote in German.
>
> However, Rilke is the only German-writing poet mentioned in the Salinger
> canon, and we do know that Salinger was somewhat obsessed with him.
> Besides, this is Muriel making the statement, and I doubt she'd make the
> distinction.
>
> Regards,
> Cecilia.
>
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