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He is 22 and a literary rising star, she a psychoanalyst and a successful writer herself: Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salomé. Their love begins with a few poems that the young poet sends to Lou, almost fifteen years his senior, in 1897. When they meet in person, she is fascinated and swept away by the depth of his feelings and the magnitude of his poetic talent. For him, the encounter represents a human and artistic fulfillment and challenge. For both, their love is an overwhelming and unique event. Lou always clings to her freedom, judges Rilke's work mercilessly, and prevents her lover from resting on Rilke's genius. And so their love affair, which later blossomed into a lifelong friendship, is also a yearning struggle for one another, a passionate search for connection and freedom
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