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Rilke and Andreas-Salome - A Love Story in Letters

English · Paperback

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Informationen zum Autor Rainer Maria Rilke  (1875–1926), the author of Sonnets to Orpheus, Duino Elegies , and Letters to a Young Poet , was one of the greatest poets of the German language. 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. Edward Snow twice received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for his Rilke translations. A professor at Rice University, he lives in Houston, Texas. Edward Snow twice received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for his Rilke translations. A professor at Rice University, he lives in Houston, Texas. Michael Winkler has written extensively on modern poetry and fiction. He is a professor at Rice University and lives in Houston, Texas. Michael Winkler has written extensively on modern poetry and fiction. He is a professor at Rice University and lives in Houston, Texas. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung "Immensely readable...a significant piece of scholarship."—Fred Volkmer, New York Sun

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Authors Lou Andreas-Salome, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Maria Rilke Rilke, Rainer Rilke, Rainer Maria Rilke
Assisted by Edward Snow (Translation), Michael Winkler (Translation)
Publisher Norton and Co Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 17.06.2008
 
EAN 9780393331905
ISBN 978-0-393-33190-5
Dimensions 138 mm x 210 mm x 26 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies

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