Cine s-a întâlnit cu Lou Andreas-Salomé?

Lou Andreas-Salomé (născută Louise von Salomé sau Luíza Gustavovna Salomé, în rusă: Луиза Густавовна Саломе; n. Sankt Petersburg, 12 februarie 1861 – d. Göttingen, 5 februarie 1937) a fost o psihanalistă și autoare de origine rusă. Capacitățile sale intelectuale și varietatea ariei de preocupări au condus-o să aibă relații amicale cu unii dintre cei mai influenți intelectuali ai epocii în care a trăit, printre care Nietzsche, Wagner, Freud și Rilke.

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was an Austrian poet and novelist. Acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, he is widely recognized as a significant writer in the German language. His work is viewed by critics and scholars as possessing undertones of mysticism, exploring themes of subjective experience and disbelief. His writings include one novel, several collections of poetry, several volumes of correspondence and a few early novellas.

Rilke travelled extensively throughout Europe, finally settling in Switzerland, which provided the inspiration for many of his poems. While Rilke is best known for his contributions to German literature, he also wrote in French. Among English-language readers, his best-known works include two poetry collections: Duino Elegies (Duineser Elegien) and Sonnets to Orpheus (Die Sonette an Orpheus), a semi-autobiographical novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge), and a collection of ten letters published posthumously Letters to a Young Poet (Briefe an einen jungen Dichter). In the later 20th century, his work found new audiences in citations by self-help authors and frequent quotations in television shows, books and motion pictures.