Subject: Re: A Perfect Day for German Poetry
From: georges aron (georges.aron@libertysurf.fr)
Date: Thu Nov 08 2001 - 15:59:01 GMT
When I first read "A perfect day...", I thought that the german poet was
Hölderlin. How are you that sure Salinger was referring to R.M. Rilke?
Cecilia wrote he was somewhat obsessed with him: could you give more
details?(I'm reading 'Letters to a young poet', so I'm especially interested
in this question...)
Valérie Aron
Jim wrote:
> 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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