Poetry Books
Rilke and Andreas-Salome: A Love Story in Letters
RRP: $17.95
Our Price: $10.77
You Save: $ 7.18 ( 40% )
Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke, Lou Andreas-Salome
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Average Customer Rating:
Our Price: $10.77
You Save: $ 7.18 ( 40% )
Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke, Lou Andreas-Salome
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Average Customer Rating:
Experimental feature: Order Rilke and Andreas-Salome: A Love Story in Letters from the UK, Canada, Germany or France by clicking an appropriate flag below.
Some items available at Amazon.com are not available in all countries.
Some items available at Amazon.com are not available in all countries.
Rilke and Andreas-Salome: A Love Story in Letters Description
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 831.912
EAN: 9780393331905
ISBN: 0393331903
Label: W. W. Norton
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 462
Publication Date: 2008-06-30
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Studio: W. W. Norton
Dewey Decimal Number: 831.912
EAN: 9780393331905
ISBN: 0393331903
Label: W. W. Norton
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 462
Publication Date: 2008-06-30
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Studio: W. W. Norton
Editorial Review of Rilke and Andreas-Salome: A Love Story in Letters
"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.
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.
Customer Reviews of Rilke and Andreas-Salome: A Love Story in Letters
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Beauty and the Bitumen
Review: There is no reviewing correspondence. There is present either only the (inevitably) voyueristic pleasure of gazing into dead mens dreams, or nothing at all, at which point we set the book down, and carry on composing our own secrets.
But the idea of positing a critical eye on one's letters (unless they are means exclusive of a recepient, as with Seneca) seems to me to be entirely ridiculous.
I can only say that I was happy to the point of giddiness to discover the recently published letters between Rilke and Andreas-Salome.
I devoured the book whole, and found myself inspired by Rilke's early uncertanties, and the almost frighteningly composed replies of his one time lover, now become mentor. It offered a glimpse into the world of this beautiful poet, who previously, seemed to have sprung fully formed into the author of the Duino Elegies, as though he were always the master we have come to admire.
And here, beset by dread, here overcome by an almost childish enthusiasm, we find him not stripped of his title rather enriched by his likeness to ourselves. And it's as though we always sensed beneath the richness of his language a kinship we could never adaquetely define, here at last the inexplicable is made manifest.
I do not speak to Andreas-Salome, she does not move me, but she was a freind of Rilke's and therefore deserves at least our respect.
If you are curious about the genesis and flowering of a poet, you will find no better testament than this collection, and much like the Memoirs of Pablo Neruda, you will find in the simplest relation, a poetry unto itself.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Strange and intimate
Review: Wow!! It lets you inside so much intimacy and thoughts. A great read and an interesting learning experience.
Review Summary: Beauty and the Bitumen
Review: There is no reviewing correspondence. There is present either only the (inevitably) voyueristic pleasure of gazing into dead mens dreams, or nothing at all, at which point we set the book down, and carry on composing our own secrets.
But the idea of positing a critical eye on one's letters (unless they are means exclusive of a recepient, as with Seneca) seems to me to be entirely ridiculous.
I can only say that I was happy to the point of giddiness to discover the recently published letters between Rilke and Andreas-Salome.
I devoured the book whole, and found myself inspired by Rilke's early uncertanties, and the almost frighteningly composed replies of his one time lover, now become mentor. It offered a glimpse into the world of this beautiful poet, who previously, seemed to have sprung fully formed into the author of the Duino Elegies, as though he were always the master we have come to admire.
And here, beset by dread, here overcome by an almost childish enthusiasm, we find him not stripped of his title rather enriched by his likeness to ourselves. And it's as though we always sensed beneath the richness of his language a kinship we could never adaquetely define, here at last the inexplicable is made manifest.
I do not speak to Andreas-Salome, she does not move me, but she was a freind of Rilke's and therefore deserves at least our respect.
If you are curious about the genesis and flowering of a poet, you will find no better testament than this collection, and much like the Memoirs of Pablo Neruda, you will find in the simplest relation, a poetry unto itself.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Strange and intimate
Review: Wow!! It lets you inside so much intimacy and thoughts. A great read and an interesting learning experience.