Download or read book Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters written by Rainer Maria Rilke and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-06-17 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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-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-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.