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.
- ISBN10 0393350428
- ISBN13 9780393350425
- Publish Date 17 June 2008
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint W. W. Norton & Company
- Format eBook
- Pages 448
- Language English