LETTERS TO A YOUNG PAINTER

As for you, my dear Balthus, you surely know full well the love that connects us. Yours with all my heart, Rilke.Never before transl ated into English, Rainer Maria Rilkes fascinating Letters to a Young Painter, written between 1920 and 1926 toward the end of his life, is a surprising companion to his infamous Letters to a Young Poet, earlier correspondence from 1902 to 1908.While the latter h as become a global phenomenon, with millions of copies sold in many different languages, the present volume has been largely overloo ked.In the...[Read more]