The Human Family: Stories (European Women Writers)

by Lou Andreas-Salome and Raleigh Whitinger

Raleigh Whitinger (Translator)

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The Human Family is the first complete translation of the cycle of ten novellas that Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861–1937) wrote between 1895 and 1898. This collection contributes to the rediscovery of Andreas-Salomé’s significance as a thinker and writer, above all with regard to her literary contribution to modern feminism and the principles of women’s emancipation. Born in St. Petersburg to a German diplomat and his wife, Andreas-Salomé has always been a figure of interest because of her close relationships to influential thinkers such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Sigmund Freud. Only since the mid-1980s, however, have her prose fiction...Read more
  • ISBN10 080325072X
  • ISBN13 9780803250727
  • Publish Date 1 October 2005
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Nebraska Press
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 208
  • Language English