WRITER

Lou Andreas-Salomé

1861 - 1937

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Lou Andreas-Salomé (born either Louise von Salomé or Luíza Gustavovna Salomé or Lioulia von Salomé, Russian: Луиза Густавовна Саломе; 12 February 1861 – 5 February 1937) was a Russian-born psychoanalyst and a well-traveled author, narrator, and essayist from a French Huguenot-German family. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lou Andreas-Salomé has received more than 1,356,427 page views. Her biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Lou Andreas-Salomé is the 201st most popular writer (down from 194th in 2019), the 70th most popular biography from Russia (up from 74th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Russian Writer.

Lou andreas-salomé is most famous for her relationship with the philosopher Sigmund Freud.

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  • 55

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  • 2.67

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Notable Works

The Human Family
Fiction
The Human Family is the first complete translation of the cycle of ten novellas that Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861–1937) wrote between 1895 and 1898. This collection contributes to the rediscovery of Andreas-Salomé’s significance as a thinker and writer, above all with regard to her literary contribution to modern feminism and the principles of women’s emancipation. Born in St. Petersburg to a German diplomat and his wife, Andreas-Salomé has always been a figure of interest because of her close relationships to influential thinkers such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Sigmund Freud. Only since the mid-1980s, however, have her prose fiction and theoretical writings been reconsidered as important documents of emerging ideas and debates in twentieth-century feminism. The ten stories of The Human Family drive home her critical perspective on feminine stereotypes. They depict a wide variety of young women as they relate to men representing different degrees of enlightenment and tolerance, struggling to express a complete and independent feminine identity in the face of the confining but often seductive roles that convention and tradition impose on female potential. The Human Family provides a subtle and nuanced perspective on European feminist writing from the turn of the last century by a woman writer who was intimately involved with the literary mainstream of her time and whose theoretical and literary works played a significant role in feminist debates of the period, prefiguring present-day feminist discourse on essentialism and constructivism.
2005
Lettre ouverte à Freud
1983
Lebensrückblick
1968
Looking Back
Biography & Autobiography
Presents the memoirs of the great spirit of her time, the legendary Lou Andreas-Salome, who defied convention as a feminist, psychoanalyst, and author.
1991
Friedrich Nietzsche in seinen werken
1924
The Freud journal of Lou Andreas-Salomé
1964

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lou Andreas-Salomé ranks 201 out of 7,302. Before her are Juvenal, Luís de Camões, Roald Dahl, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, William Blake, and Karl Adolph Gjellerup. After her are Khalil Gibran, Anna Wintour, Mansur Al-Hallaj, Tristan Tzara, Ray Bradbury, and Stéphane Mallarmé.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Lou Andreas-Salomé ranks 5. Before her are Rabindranath Tagore, Mehmed VI, Rudolf Steiner, and Fridtjof Nansen. After her are Georges Méliès, Charles Édouard Guillaume, Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, Victor Horta, Erich von Falkenhayn, Georgy Lvov, and Alfred North Whitehead. Among people deceased in 1937, Lou Andreas-Salomé ranks 11. Before her are Pierre de Coubertin, Antonio Gramsci, John D. Rockefeller, Maurice Ravel, Erich Ludendorff, and Amelia Earhart. After her are Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, George Gershwin, Gustaf Dalén, Yevgeny Zamyatin, and Gerda Taro.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Lou Andreas-Salomé ranks 70 out of 3,761. Before her are Mikhail Kutuzov (1745), Yaroslav the Wise (978), Vasily Zaitsev (1915), Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia (1904), Peter II of Russia (1715), and Peter Carl Fabergé (1846). After her are Stanislav Petrov (1939), Wilhelm Wien (1864), Roman Jakobson (1896), Yevgeny Prigozhin (1961), Anna of Russia (1693), and Paul Karrer (1889).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Lou Andreas-Salomé ranks 13. Before her are Isaac Asimov (1920), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), Boris Pasternak (1890), and Ivan Turgenev (1818). After her are Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926), Mikhail Sholokhov (1905), Joseph Brodsky (1940), Mikhail Lermontov (1814), Sergei Yesenin (1895), and Vladimir Vysotsky (1938).

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