Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters

By Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salomé

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393331903
• ISBN13: 9780393331905
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.6"