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Looking for all the world like shrunken Erich von Stroheims in yellow hard hats, puttees and jodhpur-like work pants, they throw up signs reading...
...Group, McCarthy (3) 6. Candy, Southern and HofFenberg (7) 7. Von Ryan's Express, Westheimer...
Were it not for Von Salis, personal knowledge of this most private of men would be largely left to the colored memoirs of the ladies of his life. Von Salis, formerly professor of history at the Swiss Institute of Technology, was a young man when he knew Rilke during the last seven years of the poet's self-exile in Switzerland, and his partial biography has been a primary source of countless articles and other writings on Rilke since it was first published in 1936. It has now appeared for the first time in English, translated by Norah Kelsall...
...Von Salis' book begins with the poet in the summer of 1919, after "five impenetrable, sterile years, interrupting all genuine life." War was intolerable for a man who found civic peace too much. He had been drafted into the German army, but the minute the war ended he fled to Switzerland, "as animals go when the closed season is over...
Nameless Shame. Von Salis has few such events to record: A visit to an abandoned chapel to put flowers on the altar or "a feast of reconciliation" (i.e., a chat) with a tardy postman are typical adventures. By common standards, Rilke did not "live" at all. The events of his life took place within his poetry...