{"id":19397,"date":"2013-01-05T09:01:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T16:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=19397"},"modified":"2013-01-07T14:26:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T21:26:11","slug":"photo-of-rilke-by-shaw-letters-to-balthus-lou-a-salome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2013\/01\/05\/photo-of-rilke-by-shaw-letters-to-balthus-lou-a-salome\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo of Rilke by Shaw &#8211; Letters to  Balthus, Lou A. Salome"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cFor a time, Rilke and Cocteau had apartments in the same Paris building\u2014evidently without ever becoming acquainted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  \u201cRilke was eternally someone\u2019s houseguest. Once he had fifty different addresses in four years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe greatest lesbian poet since Sappho, Auden called Rilke.\u201d&#8217;<\/p>\n<p> \u201cJoyce, Hesse, Mann, and Rilke all died in Switzerland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u201cJohn Berryman: Rilke was a jerk.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/category\/books\/david-markson\/\">David Markson <\/a>on<a href=\"http:\/\/readingmarksonreading.tumblr.com\/post\/23473877406\/the-first-page-of-david-marksons-copy-of-a\"> Rilke <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Poet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1RainerMariaRilke2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1RainerMariaRilke2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1RainerMariaRilke\" width=\"379\" height=\"487\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1RainerMariaRilke2.jpg 379w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1RainerMariaRilke2-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 379px) 100vw, 379px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nRainer Maria Rilke, 1906 \/George Bernard Shaw \/sc London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) photographic legacy of <strong>George Bernard Shaw<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ON April 19, 1906 &#8211; Rilke wrote to TO S. Fischer. (page 205 Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>. A few days ago Rodin began the portrait of one of your most remarkable authors, which promimses to become something quite extraordinary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>This personality of Shaw&#8217;s and his whole manner makes desirous of reading a few more of his books, of which I think I know only the <em>Man of Destiny<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Madame Shaw who brought about the making of this portrait over her husband&#8217;s head in the most charming way, is a solicitous, quietly attentive woman, full of zeal and enthusiams for beautiful things, hovering about her husband with all this as the spring wind plays about a billy goat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pascal.blanchard.37\">Pascal Blanchard<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Rilke was the lover of Baladine Klossowski, the mother of the painter<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tendreams.org\/balthus.htm\"> Balthus<\/a> and the writer and draftsman Pierre Klossowski&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baladine_Klossowska\">Baladine Klossowska<\/a> was the last lover of Rilke..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li><\/li>\n<p>Letter from Rilke to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/boldtype\/1099\/foxweber\/letter.html\"> Balthus <\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Rainer+Maria+Rilke\/+images\/567918\">Photo via<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1Rainer+Maria+Rilke.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1Rainer+Maria+Rilke.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1Rainer+Maria+Rilke\" width=\"315\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1Rainer+Maria+Rilke.jpg 315w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1Rainer+Maria+Rilke-189x300.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p>Rilke worked very hard for Rodin&#8217;s book.. he also toured and gave lectures but was dismissed by Rodin after 4 years. according to William Gass. (<a href=\"http:\/\/payingattentiontothesky.com\/2012\/08\/06\/rilke-meets-rodin-william-h-gass\/\">Rilke meets Rodin <\/a>&#8211; William Gass)<\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p>John Banville &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/archives\/2013\/jan\/10\/study-panther\/\">Study the Panther <\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1rilkeLoudreas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1rilkeLoudreas.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"SZP370902\" width=\"400\" height=\"345\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1rilkeLoudreas.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1rilkeLoudreas-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPhoto of Rilke and Lou Andreas Salome among friends (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridgemanart.com\/asset\/370902\/German-Photographer-19th-century\/Lou-Andreas-Salome-Frieda-von-Buelow-Rainer-Mari\">via<\/a>) <\/p>\n<p>Here is Rilke&#8217;s poem to Lou Andreas Salome.. (<a href=\" http:\/\/www.poemhunter.com\/poem\/to-lou-andreas-salome\/\">Read here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Longing leads out too often<br \/>\ninto vagueness. Why should I cast myself, when,<br \/>\nfor all I know, your influence falls on me,<br \/>\ngently, like moonlight on a window seat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lou &#038; F <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/loufr.jpg\" alt=\"loufr\" title=\"loufr\" width=\"250\" height=\"364\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/loufr.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/loufr-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2008\/04\/06\/sabina-spielrein-and-lou-andreas-salome\/\">Lou Andreas Salome and Freud <\/a>(scroll down)<\/p>\n<p>Rilke and Lou Andreas Salome visited Russia to see the great man Tolstoy.. Tolstoy ignored Rilke. <\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor a time, Rilke and Cocteau had apartments in the same Paris building\u2014evidently without ever becoming acquainted.\u201d \u201cRilke was eternally someone\u2019s houseguest. Once he had fifty different addresses in four years.\u201d \u201cThe greatest lesbian poet since Sappho, Auden called Rilke.\u201d&#8217; \u201cJoyce, Hesse, Mann, and Rilke all died in Switzerland.\u201d \u201cJohn Berryman: Rilke was a jerk.\u201d &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2013\/01\/05\/photo-of-rilke-by-shaw-letters-to-balthus-lou-a-salome\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Photo of Rilke by Shaw &#8211; Letters to  Balthus, Lou A. 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