Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters

ISBN: 0393331903

Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria

Condition: New

"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-sicle 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.