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Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters
Contributor(s): Rilke, Rainer Maria (Author), Andreas-Salome, Lou (Author), Snow, Edward (Translator)

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 ISBN: 0393331903     ISBN-13: 9780393331905
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
OUR PRICE: $28.45  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: June 2008
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Annotation: "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-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.
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Literary Collections | Letters
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2008012133
Physical Information: 1.02" H x 5.47" W x 8.61" L (1.22 lbs) 444 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2008 pg. 278
 
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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.

Contributor Bio(s): Snow, Edward: - Edward Snow is an award-winning translator of the poetry and prose of Rilke. He is a professor at Rice University and lives in Houston, Texas.Andreas-Salome, Lou: - Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861-1937) is an important figure in the lives of many Western thinkers and artists. A Russian-born psychoanalyst and author, her diverse interests led to influential relationships with an array of intellectuals, including Nietzsche, Freud, and Rilke.Rilke, Rainer Maria: - RAINER MARIA RILKE (1875-1926) is one of the greatest poets who ever wrote in the German language. His most famous works are Sonnets to Orpheus, The Duino Elegies, Letters to a Young Poet, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, and The Book of Hours.
 
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