Evidence: | 'I have just been reading the record of a dangerous voyage, [italics] Malte Laurids Brigg [end italics]. Yet Rilke returned safely. I have seen a photo of him in a black coat and a watch chain standing in the gateway of a German castle. Where have I been from which there was any danger of not returning? Even from insanity I came back to find a name, a latchkey, a home, identifying friends. In writing I hug the shore all the time. Rilke's book hs affected me profoundly; given me the sense of being out of my depth, of a dazzling interconnection between two worlds in which one simultaneously moves. It has left me sensitised like a watch that has been too near a magnet. The effect was so violent that I had to lie down at intervals while I was reading it; I was shaking as if in a high fever.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 6 Oct 1935 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | location in dwelling: sometimes in bed | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Antonia White |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 31 Mar 1899 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | writer |
Religion: | [lapsed] Catholic |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | christened Eirene Botting |
Author: | Rainer Maria Rilke |
Title: | Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, The |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 19713 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Antonia White | |
Editor: | Susan Chitty | |
Title: | Antonia White. Diaries 1926-1957 | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1991 | |
Vol: | I | |
Page: | 56 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Antonia White, Susan Chitty (ed.), Antonia White. Diaries 1926-1957 (London, 1991), I, p. 56, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19713, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
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