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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 06/01/2008
ISBN: 9780393331905
Pages: 422
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 8.61h x 5.47w x 1.02d

Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2008 pg. 278