Lou von Salome

Lou von Salome
Author: Julia Vickers
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2014-11-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1476600732

The daughter of an illustrious Russian general, Lou von Salome left her home in the heart of Tsarist Russia to conquer intellectual Europe at the tender age of 18. Eventually settling in Germany, she became a best-selling novelist, a groundbreaking essayist, and a well-known literary critic. In addition to all this, Salome was a real-life muse for some of the most brilliant men of her time. This biography tells the story of Salome's entire life and career, focusing on her young adulthood; celibate marriage with linguistics scholar Carl Friedrich Andreas; rumored affairs with Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainier Maria Rilke, and several other authors and poets; and her relationship with Sigmund Freud, which was marked most notably by their contrasting views of psychoanalysis.

You Alone Are Real to Me

You Alone Are Real to Me
Author: Lou Andreas-Salomé
Publisher: Carcanet Press
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2004
Genre: Poets, German
ISBN: 9781857547429

The first publication in English of an indispensable work on poet Rainer Maria Rilke.

The Erotic

The Erotic
Author: Lou Andreas-Salomé
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2012
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1412846250

Originally published as: Die erotik. Frankfurt am Main: Literarische anstalt R'utten & Loening, 1910.

Nietzsche

Nietzsche
Author: Lou Andreas-Salomé
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780252070358

This English translation of Friedrich Nietzsche in seinen Werken offers a rare, intimate view of the philosopher by Lou Salomé, a free-thinking, Russian-born intellectual to whom Nietzsche proposed marriage at only their second meeting. Published in 1894 as its subject languished in madness, Salomé's book rode the crest of a surge of interest in Nietzsche's iconoclastic philosophy. She discusses his writings and such biographical events as his break with Wagner, attempting to ferret out the man in the midst of his works. Salomé's provocative conclusion -- that Nietzsche's madness was the inevitable result of his philosophical views -- generated considerable controversy. Nietzsche's sister, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, dismissed the book as a work of fantasy. Yet the philosopher's longtime acquaintance Erwin Rohde wrote, "Nothing better or more deeply experienced or perceived has ever been written about Nietzsche." Siegfried Mandel's extensive introduction examines the circumstances that brought Lou Salomé and Nietzsche together and the ideological conflicts that drove them apart.

Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters

Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2008-06-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0393350428

"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.

Anneliese's House

Anneliese's House
Author: Lou Andreas-Salomé
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2021
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1640141014

The first English translation of a presciently modern portrayal of emerging feminist sensibilities in a nineteenth-century family, by one of Germany's leading pre-First World War writers.

Ibsen's Heroines

Ibsen's Heroines
Author: Lou Andreas-Salomé
Publisher: Amadeus Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1989
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

This book presents critical essays written by a woman contemporary of Ibsen's, detailing her thoughts on the depiction of women in Ibsen's plays and women's confined roles in society at the end of the nineteenth century.

I Am Dynamite!

I Am Dynamite!
Author: Sue Prideaux
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2018-10-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1524760846

NEW YORK TIMES Editors’ Choice • THE TIMES BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR • WINNER OF THE HAWTHORNDEN PRIZE A groundbreaking new biography of philosophy’s greatest iconoclast Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most enigmatic figures in philosophy, and his concepts—the Übermensch, the will to power, slave morality—have fundamentally reshaped our understanding of the human condition. But what do most people really know of Nietzsche—beyond the mustache, the scowl, and the lingering association with nihilism and fascism? Where do we place a thinker who was equally beloved by Albert Camus, Ayn Rand, Martin Buber, and Adolf Hitler? Nietzsche wrote that all philosophy is autobiographical, and in this vividly compelling, myth-shattering biography, Sue Prideaux brings readers into the world of this brilliant, eccentric, and deeply troubled man, illuminating the events and people that shaped his life and work. From his placid, devoutly Christian upbringing—overshadowed by the mysterious death of his father—through his teaching career, lonely philosophizing on high mountains, and heart-breaking descent into madness, Prideaux documents Nietzsche’s intellectual and emotional life with a novelist’s insight and sensitivity. She also produces unforgettable portraits of the people who were most important to him, including Richard and Cosima Wagner, Lou Salomé, the femme fatale who broke his heart; and his sister Elizabeth, a rabid German nationalist and anti-Semite who manipulated his texts and turned the Nietzsche archive into a destination for Nazi ideologues. I Am Dynamite! is the essential biography for anyone seeking to understand history's most misunderstood philosopher.