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By (author) Vickers Julia

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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 age of 18. Eventually settling in Germany, she became a best-selling novelist, an essayist, and a well-known literary critic. This biography tells the story of Salome”s entire life and career.

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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.

Table of contents:

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction

PART I. GOD THE FATHER
1. A Russian General’s Daughter
2. Ecco Homo
3. Girl Genius
4. The Nietzsche Experience
5. Any Third Person
6. The Birth of a Tragedy
7. Divine Inspiration
8. The Mysterious Mr. Andreas

PART II. MUSES AND WRITERS
9. Marriage—and a Life
10. In Nietzsche’s Shadow
11. L’homme Eternal
12. The Inspiration of a Young Poet
13. Love and Other Difficulties
14. To Russia, with Love
15. Together, Alone
16. The Land in Between

PART III. FATHER FREUD
17. Oedipus Rex
18. Ego and Eros
19. The Beautiful Narcissist
20. That of Loss
21. Return to the All

Afterword
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index

Biographical note:
Writer, producer, editor and researcher
Julia Vickers works for the PBS program, Religion and Ethics. She lives in Germantown, Maryland.