Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters

He would become one of the most important poets of the twentieth century; she a muse of Europe's fin-de-si cle thinkers and artists. In this collection of letters, a finalist for the PEN USA translation award, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salom , a writer and intellectual fourteen years his senior, pen a relationship that spans thirty years and shifting boundaries: as lovers, as mentor and prot g , and as deep personal and literary allies.

Author: Rainer Maria Rilke, Lou Andreas-Salomé
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 06/01/2008
Pages: 444
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 8.61h x 5.47w x 1.02d
ISBN13: 9780393331905
ISBN10: 0393331903
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Literary Collections | Letters