Subject: Re: The German poet
From: Cecilia Baader (ceciliabaader@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Nov 14 2001 - 12:48:48 GMT
--- "LR Pearson, Arts 99" <lp9616@bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> I am sure there are other Rilke motifs in Salinger, but I'm not
> really that familiar with Rilke's poetry, so I couldn't say.
I'm sure that you are right. A fascinating study would be to dig through
Rilke's poetry (and life, for Salinger was certainly familiar with both)
and list the many parallels. An idea for a thesis, I suppose.
> Inicidentally, for anyone who wasn't one the list when the discussion
> about Rilke's 'Orpheus, Eurydice, Hermes' was going on (headed by
> Cecilia and Bernd, as far as I remember) I highly recommend you search
> for it on the archives. It was a really interesting and inspiring
> discussion.
Ah, well thanks. I'd forgotten about that. My interlocutor in that
discussion was not Bernd, however, it was our sadly missing Swede, Nick,
otherwise known as The Laughing Man.
I still love that poem. And Buddy Glass as Orpheus, singing his song for
Seymour to defeat death still makes a lot of sense to me.
Regards,
Cecilia.
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