Author: George Prochnik Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300255624 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 333
Book Description
A thematically rich, provocative, and lyrical study of one of Germany’s most important, world-famous, and imaginative writers Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) was a virtuoso German poet, satirist, and visionary humanist whose dynamic life story and strikingly original writing are ripe for rediscovery. In this vividly imagined exploration of Heine’s life and work, George Prochnik contextualizes Heine’s biography within the different revolutionary political, literary, and philosophical movements of his age. He also explores the insights Heine offers contemporary readers into issues of social justice, exile, and the role of art in nurturing a more equitable society. Heine wrote that in his youth he resembled “a large newspaper of which the upper half contained the present, each day with its news and debates, while in the lower half, in a succession of dreams, the poetic past was recorded fantastically like a series of feuilletons.” This book explores the many dualities of Heine’s nature, bringing to life a fully dimensional character while also casting into sharp relief the reasons his writing and personal story matter urgently today.
Author: Heinrich Heine Publisher: Northwestern University Press ISBN: 0810113244 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : de Pages : 258
Book Description
Although many of Heine's poems are deceptively simple on the surface, the multiple allusions, word plays, and shifts and breaks in diction and tone make them almost untranslatable. Arndt not only renders the meaning of the originals, but preserves the poems' rhyme schemes as well as their moods and multiple cultural resonance.
Author: Ernst Pawel Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux ISBN: 9780374235383 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 277
Book Description
Portraying a poet at the height of his creativity, a biography of Heinrich Heine, a popular German poet of the 1800s who revolutionized the language, shares the work of his last eight years when he was confined to his bed with a mysterious ailment.
Author: George Prochnik
Author: Lewis Browne
Author: Heinrich Heine
Author: Heinrich Heine
Author: Heinrich Heine
Author: Heinrich Heine
Author: Heinrich Heine
Author: Ernst Pawel
Author: Heinrich Heine
Author: Susan Youens