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.

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.

Looking Back

Looking Back
Author: Lou Andreas-Salomé
Publisher: Marlowe & Company
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1994-04-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781569249659

Presents the memoirs of the great spirit of her time, the legendary Lou Andreas-Salome, who defied convention as a feminist, psychoanalyst, and author.

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.

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.

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading

Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading
Author: Maureen Corrigan
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0307431355

In this delightful memoir, the book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air reflects on her life as a professional reader. Maureen Corrigan takes us from her unpretentious girlhood in working-class Queens, to her bemused years in an Ivy League Ph.D. program, from the whirl of falling in love and marrying (a fellow bookworm, of course), to the ordeal of adopting a baby overseas, always with a book at her side. Along the way, she reveals which books and authors have shaped her own life—from classic works of English literature to hard-boiled detective novels, and everything in between. And in her explorations of the heroes and heroines throughout literary history, Corrigan’s love for a good story shines.

The Idea of You

The Idea of You
Author: Robinne Lee
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2017-06-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 125012591X

Now an original movie on Prime Video starring Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine! When Solène Marchand, the thirty-nine-year-old owner of a prestigious art gallery in Los Angeles, takes her daughter, Isabelle, to meet her favorite boy band, she does so reluctantly and at her ex-husband’s request. The last thing she expects is to make a connection with one of the members of the world-famous August Moon. But Hayes Campbell is clever, winning, confident, and posh, and the attraction is immediate. That he is all of twenty years old further complicates things. What begins as a series of clandestine trysts quickly evolves into a passionate relationship. It is a journey that spans continents as Solène and Hayes navigate each other’s disparate worlds: from stadium tours to international art fairs to secluded hideaways in Paris and Miami. And for Solène, it is as much a reclaiming of self, as it is a rediscovery of happiness and love. When their romance becomes a viral sensation, and both she and her daughter become the target of rabid fans and an insatiable media, Solène must face how her new status has impacted not only her life, but the lives of those closest to her.

Letters to a Young Poet

Letters to a Young Poet
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2021-04-14
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0486847500

Essential reading for scholars, poetry lovers, and anyone with an interest in Rainer Maria Rilke, German poetry, or the creative impulse, these ten letters of correspondence between Rilke and a young aspiring poet reveal elements from the inner workings of his own poetic identity. The letters coincided with an important stage of his artistic development and readers can trace many of the themes that later emerge in his best works to these messages—Rilke himself stated these letters contained part of his creative genius.

Smile: A Graphic Novel

Smile: A Graphic Novel
Author: Raina Telgemeier
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2014-07-29
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0545780012

Raina Telgemeier's #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning graphic memoir based on her childhood! Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth. What follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. And on top of all that, there's still more to deal with: a major earthquake, boy confusion, and friends who turn out to be not so friendly.

Life of a Poet

Life of a Poet
Author: Ralph Freedman
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 676
Release: 1998
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780810115439

In this outstanding biography, Ralph Freedman traces Rilke's extraordinary career by combining detailed accounts of salient episodes from the poet's restless life with an intimate reading of the verse and prose that refract them."