Reviews
- “. . . a level-headed, scholarly and often witty biography of this much-alluded-to figure in intellectual history.”
Sybil Oldfield, British Book News, February, 1985
- “Lou Andreas-Salomé is, at best, remembered as the companion of famous men: Nietzsche, Rilke and Freud. [A. L.] . . . has set out to put the record straight, and to show that she was an original thinker, a prolific writer, a practising psychoanalyst and a personality in her own right.”
April Fitzlyon, London Magazine, February 1985
The book was re-published by Moyer Bell, New York, under the title ‘Salomé’ (not chosen by me).
It has been translated into Danish by Toni Liversage and published by Forlaget Rhodos, Copenhagen, 1984; translated into French by Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat and published by Presses Universitaires de France, 1990; also translated into Turkish.
A play based on quotations from this book was devised by H. Eyles, and produced as ‘Song of Myself’ at the Greenwich Studio Theatre in October 1991.