Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters
By Rainer Maria Rilke, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Edward Snow & Michael Winkler
- Release Date: 2008-06-17
- Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
"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-siècle 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.
