Volume 12, Number 3 · February 13, 1969
Salomé Unveiled
By Anthony Quinton
Frau Lou
by Rudolph Binion
Princeton, 587 pp., $15.00
Lou Andreas-Salomé was the greatest intellectuals' woman of her age, the two decades on either side of 1900; the most distinguished performer since Madame de Staël in her particular field, but unique as a tease, as an exponent of not kiss and tell. Her three principal conquests (Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud) clearly exceed in distinction the three husbands of Alma Mahler, her only possible contemporary competitor (Mahler, Gropius, and Werfel), and although Rilke was the only one Lou went to bed with she played quite a significant part in the lives of the other two.
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