My Sister, My Spouse: A Biography of Lou Andreas-Salom-E (The Norton Library, N748) (Paperback)

~ Heinz Frederick Peters (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc; First Printing edition (November 1974)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0393007480
• ISBN-13: 978-0393007480
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #667,817 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A woman to admire, February 27, 2002

By	Elina Kogan "linak" (Boston, MA, USA) - See all my reviews

As a reader, I don't frequent the biography sections of bookstores. But I chose to buy and read this book, because Lou Salome's name was familiar to me from Irvin Yalom's book "When Nietzsce Wept". She was the infamous femme fatale who played a very signinficant role in lives of some of the most remarkable men, intellectuals of 19th-20th century Europe - Nietzsce and Rilke to name just two of them. Though she might have destroyed them emotionally, she also inspired and guided them intellectually and creatively. That's what makes this biography such a fascinating read - Lou Salome had a life filled with most exciting men and most extravagant choices. This book grabs you with its light writing style, eventful "plot", and interesting yet not overwhelming insights into the people and spirit of that era. This a book I enjoy to go back to, and re-read certain parts of it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A new approch to life., January 29, 2000

By	Margarita Montes B. (Mexico City, Mexico.) - See all my reviews

An excelent book, it reminded me that historical figures such as Rilke, Nietszche and Freud were also confronted with fear and angst. I read this book in spanish and I guess some of the things I did't like from it (like the translation of Rilke's poems) had to do with the translator, not the author. Thou, I found the book quite interesting; the life or Lou Andreas-Salomé (her courage to live by her rules and believes) has to be known by every person who feels every now and then that life is some place else.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A new approch to life., January 29, 2000

By	Margarita Montes B. (Mexico City, Mexico.) - See all my reviews

An excelent book, it reminded me that historical figures such as Rilke, Nietszche and Freud were also confronted with fear and angst. I read this book in spanish and I guess some of the things I did't like from it (like the translation of Rilke's poems) had to do with the translator, not the author. Thou, I found the book quite interesting; the life or Lou Andreas-Salomé (her courage to live by her rules and believes) has to be known by every person who feels every now and then that life is some place else.