Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters
Fiction & Literature, Essays & Letters, Biography & Memoir, Literary
| Author: | Rainer Maria Rilke, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Edward Snow, Michael Winkler | ISBN: | 9780393350425 |
| Publisher: | W. W. Norton & Company | Publication: | June 17, 2008 |
| Imprint: | W. W. Norton & Company | Language: | English |
| Author: | Rainer Maria Rilke, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Edward Snow, Michael Winkler |
| ISBN: | 9780393350425 |
| Publisher: | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Publication: | June 17, 2008 |
| Imprint: | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Language: | English |
"Immensely readable...a significant piece of scholarship."—Fred Volkmer, New York Sun
He would become one of the most important poets of the twentieth century; she a muse of Europe's fin-de-siecle thinkers and artists. In this collection of letters, a finalist for the PEN USA translation award, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salomé, a writer and intellectual fourteen years his senior, pen a relationship that spans thirty years and shifting boundaries: as lovers, as mentor and protégé, and as deep personal and literary allies.
"Immensely readable...a significant piece of scholarship."—Fred Volkmer, New York Sun
He would become one of the most important poets of the twentieth century; she a muse of Europe's fin-de-siecle thinkers and artists. In this collection of letters, a finalist for the PEN USA translation award, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salomé, a writer and intellectual fourteen years his senior, pen a relationship that spans thirty years and shifting boundaries: as lovers, as mentor and protégé, and as deep personal and literary allies.
