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Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters

By Rainer Maria Rilke; Lou Andreas-Salomé

Book information

Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Year
2008
ISBN
9780393350425, 2008012133
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
5 MB (5203336 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-11 19:07:09
Biography & Autobiography; Literary Criticism; Non

Description

"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.

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