Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salomé : the correspondence
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Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salomé : the correspondence
W.W. Norton, c2006
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Rainer Maria Rilke, Lou Andreas-Salomé : Briefwechsel
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"Originally published in German as: Rainer Maria Rilke, Lou Andreas-Salomé : Briefwechsel, herausgegeben von Ernst Pfeiffer"--T.p. verso
Includes index
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He would become one of the most important poets of the twentieth century; she was the uber-muse of Europe's turn-of-the-century thinkers and artists. In this never-before-translated collection of letters spanning almost thirty years, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salome, a writer and intellectual fourteen years his senior, pen a relationship that moves from that of lovers to that of mentor and protege, to that of deepest personal and literary allies. From the time of their first meeting and consequent affair to Rilke's death in 1926, Rilke and Salome reeled through extremes of love, pain, annoyance, desire, and need-yet guided each other in one of the most fruitful artistic exchanges in twentieth-century literature. Despite illness, distance, and emotional and psychological pain, they managed to cultivate, through strikingly honest prose, an enduring and indispensable friendship, a decades-long heartfelt dialogue that encompassed love, art, and the imagination.
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