Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters

ISBN-13: 9780393331905 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 444 str.

Rainer Rilke

Opis

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-Salome, a writer and intellectual fourteen years his senior, pen a relationship that spans thirty years and shifting boundaries: as lovers, as mentor and protege, and as deep personal and literary allies.