It was the toast of vienna for its annual ein stadt. Although lou andreassalome is best known today for her relationships with these three men of genius, she was well known in her own right during the early years of this century as both a writer and a psychoanalyst. Rainer maria rilke and lou andreassalome ars, arte et. Petersburg, lou andreas salome 18611937 was a writer, thinker and psychoanalyst who figured in the most prominent intellectual circles of late 19 th century europe. Online shopping from a great selection at books store. I can only say that i was happy to the point of giddiness to discover the recently published letters between rilke and andreas salome. For englishspeakers, the best introduction to her work is the short story collection, the human family, translated by raleigh whitinger. One of the volumes that has been there for quite some time is a book by a friend irvin yalom s celebrated when nietzsche wept.
Rainer maria rilke 18751926 is one of the greatest poets who ever wrote in the german language. Stumbling onto this book her carefully crafted tribute to her friend, former lover and fellow museer. However their high opinion of rilke serves to diminish lou andreassalome, who happened to be the reason i wanted to read this correspondence. Her books on nietzsche and on rilke are major studies. The woman who charmed nietzsche, freud and rilke aleph. Petersburg, russia to parents of french huguenot and northern german descent. In this collection of letters, a finalist for the pen usa translation award, the poet rainer maria rilke and lou andreassalome, a writer and intellectual fourteen years his senior, pen a relationship that spans thirty years and shifting boundaries. Rainer maria rilke, author, lou andreassalome, author, edward snow, translator w.
Aiken similarly commented that the sonnets to orpheus. Lou andreassalome heeft intens geleefd, ze heeft gereisd, gestudeerd. Rilke wrote a poem called to lou andreassalome i held myself too open, i forgot that outside not just things exist and animals fully at ease in themselves, whose eyes reach from their lives roundedness no differently than portraits do from frames. Her novels and criticism challenged readers to rethink gender roles, and she became a pioneering psychoanalyst. The stack of books i mean to read gets taller by the day. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. I held myself too open i forgotthat outside not just things exist and animalsfully at ease in themselves whose eyes. The exchange of letters over years between rilke and lou is available as a book. Salome explores the finite intricacies of sensuality and the bliss of uncorrupted although vaguely pedophilic love. She commuted between artistic circles in berlin, vienna. It is a complement to the distress and anxiety of the elegies, and in rilkes whole performance the two books must be taken together. The correspondence 1st edition by rilke, rainer maria, andreas salome, lou 2006 hardcover on.
I discovered rainer rilke several years ago and after happening onto his diaries i was always curious about lou andreassalome. Edward snow is an awardwinning translator of the poetry and prose of. Lou andreassalome 18611937 is an important figure in the lives of many western thinkers and artists. Her diverse intellectual interests led to friendships with a broad array of distinguished western thinkers, including friedrich nietzsche, sigmund freud, paul ree, and rainer maria rilke. Although lou andreassalome is best known today for her relationships. I discuss the retrospective on his career as a psychiatrist. Rainer maria rilke by lou andreassalome waterstones.
Interest in her life of passion and her writings have grown since the release of the film in 2016 in love with lou about her relationship with rilke. Siegfried mandel was a professor of philosophy at the university of colorado and the author of nietzsche and the jews. Looking back the memoirs of lou andreassalome illustrated. Ze kreeg in grotere kring bekendheid door haar boeken over nietzsche en rilke. The hardcover of the rainer maria rilke and lou andreas salome. She developed close relationships with nietzsche, rilke, and freud. We cannot understand freuds rationalism or his antireligious sensibility without salomes writings.
Lou andreassalome, the first woman psychoanalyst, on. One of her books is entitled the erotic, available in paperback. Rainer maria rilke and lou andreassalome hardcover. Lou salome 18611937 was the author of ibsens heroines, freud, rilke, and other books. Her three principal conquests nietzsche, rilke, and freud clearly exceed in distinction. Her diverse intellectual interests led to friendships with an astounding array of luminaries, including nietzsche, wagner, freud, and rilke.
Salome was a prolific writer, and penned several littleknown novels, plays, and essays. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. Despite engaging with the most privileged minds of the time, today she is virtually unknown a fact that forces us to question the validity of fame. Lou andreas salome has remained largely unknown to the european public unlike men in her life such as rilke, nietzsche and freud. With nicole heesters, katharina lorenz, liv lisa fries, helena pieske. The correspondence 1st edition by rilke, rainer maria, andreas salome. Buy rainer maria rilke by lou andreassalome from waterstones today. The erotic andreassalome, lou 9781412853842 amazon. Despite engaging with the most privileged minds of the time, today she is virtually unknown a fact that. Explore books by lou andreassalome with our selection at. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. Lou andreassalome was a russianborn psychoanalyst and a welltraveled author, narrator, and essayist from a russiangerman family. Andreassalome was rilkes most trusted confidante and, in many ways.
His most famous works are sonnets to orpheus, the duino elegies, letters to a young poet, the notebooks of malte laurids brigge, and the book of hours. He would become one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. Psychoanalyst, writer, nietzsches student, freuds close friend, rilkes muse, free, unknown. Boeken van lou andreassalome koop je eenvoudig online bij. In this neverbeforetranslated collection of letters spanning almost thirty years, the poet rainer maria rilke and lou andreassalome, a writer and intellectual fourteen years his senior, pen a relationship that moves from that of lovers to that of mentor and protege. Rainer maria rilkelou andreassalome, briefwechsel, edited by ernst pfeiffer, insel, 1952. Rainer maria rilke to lou andreassalome i held myself too open, i forgot that outside not just things exist and animals fully at ease in themselves, whose eyes reach from their lives roundedness no differently than portraits do from frames. With more than twentyfive years of correspondence between two old scribblers, worldrenowned writer rainer maria rilke and his soundingboard, onetime lover, friend and mentor lou andreassalome. Ein buch event a decade ago and also the subject of the second book haven post ever. A biography of the woman who inspired freud, nietzsche, and rilke is set in the backdrop of the european cultural revolution at the turn of the last century. 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. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. A russianborn psychoanalyst and author, her diverse interests led to influential relationships with an array of intellectuals, including nietzsche, freud, and rilke.