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This work provides an exploration of the personal and professional relationship between the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and the painter Paula Modersohn-Becker, whose death inspired Rilke's greatest work Requiem for a friend.

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A brilliant and valuable study, written with grace and passion, Torgesen's work could scarcely be bettered, both for the delight of reading it provides and for the insights into the lives it exposes." —Choice

"As a guide through the intersecting lives and relevant work of Rilke, Modersohn-Becker, and Westhoff, this study has qualitatively and in its focus no parallel in either English or German." —Reinhold Heller, University of Chicago

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      Publisher: Northwestern University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 4/30/2000 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780810118195, 978-0810118195
      ISBN10: 081011819X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This work provides an exploration of the personal and professional relationship between the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and the painter Paula Modersohn-Becker, whose death inspired Rilke's greatest work Requiem for a friend.

      Trade Review
      A brilliant and valuable study, written with grace and passion, Torgesen's work could scarcely be bettered, both for the delight of reading it provides and for the insights into the lives it exposes." —Choice

      "As a guide through the intersecting lives and relevant work of Rilke, Modersohn-Becker, and Westhoff, this study has qualitatively and in its focus no parallel in either English or German." —Reinhold Heller, University of Chicago

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