{"product_id":"9780865476394","title":"Letters on Cezanne","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRilke's prayerful responses to the french master's beseeching art\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVirtually 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRilke was knowledgeable about art and had even published monographs, including a famous study of Rodin that inspired his \u003ci\u003eNew Poems\u003c\/i\u003e. But Cezanne's impact on him could not be conveyed in a traditional essay. Rilke's sense of kinship with Cezanne provides a powerful and prescient undercurrent in these letters — passages from them appear verbatim in Rilke's great modernist novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eLetters on Cezanne\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of meaningfully private responses to a radically new art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008214155504,"sku":"9780865476394","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780865476394_p0.jpg?v=1763840425","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780865476394","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}