num_pages: 234
description: A fascinating book about 3 women deeply enmeshed with european culture between the 1880s until after world war two. alma mahler-werfel, muse of painter klimt, composer mahler, walter gropius, the architect who founded the bauhaus movement and her last husband, writer werfel. gertrude stein, student of william james, friend of picasso, hemingway, collector and writer at the centre of dadaism, cubism, surrealism. lou andreas-salome, lover of nietzsche, rilke and colleague of sigmund freud. illuminating book abt 3 truly iconoclastic women who, by folly of romance or strength of will, were stars in a constellation of world changing artists, thinkers and minds in europe and america. i enjoyed the analysis of stein's writing, these 3 women were completely different from each other and yet all three stood outside expectations. nietszche's opening line to lou? "from what stars have we fallen to meet here?" vienna, paris, moscow, spend a week in bohemia and in stein's salon.
language: English
title: Three women: Lives of sex and genius
titlecomplete: Three women: Lives of sex and genius
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Bobbs-Merrill