Rilke and Andreas-Salome: A Love Story in Letters

by RAINER MARIA RILKE, LOU ANDREAS-SALOME
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"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-siècle 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.