Letters on Cézanne

Synopsis

Rilke's prayerful responses to the french master's beseeching artfor a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes. Virtually every day in the fall of 1907, rainer maria rilke returned to a paris gallery to view a cezanne exhibition. Nearly as frequently, he wrote dense and joyful letters to his wife, clara westhoff, expressing his dismay before the paintings and his ensuing revelations about art and life. Rilke was knowledgeable about art and had even published monographs, including a famous study of rodin that inspired his new poems.