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Correspondence (German List) (Hardback)
$23.84 - Save $1.44 (5%) - RRP $25.28 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for CorrespondencePaul Celan (1920-70) is one of the best-known German poets of the Holocaust. Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-73) is recognized as one of post - World War II German literature's most important novelists, poets, and playwrights. This title collects their letters written between 1948 and 1961.
Full description- Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
- Published: 09 July 2010
- Format: Hardback 442 pages
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- Categories: Diaries, Letters & Journals | Prose: Non-fiction | Anthologies (non-poetry)
- ISBN 13: 9781906497446 ISBN 10: 1906497443
- Sales rank: 227,476
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Full description for Correspondence
Paul Celan (1920-70) is one of the best-known German poets of the Holocaust; many of his poems, admired for their spare, precise diction, deal directly with its stark themes. Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-73) is recognized as one of post - World War II German literature's most important novelists, poets, and playwrights. It seems only appropriate that these two contemporaries and masters of language were at one time lovers, and that they shared a lengthy, artful, and passionate correspondence. Collected here for the first time in English are their letters written between 1948 and 1961. Their correspondence forms a moving testimony of the discourse of love in the age after Auschwitz, with all the symptomatic disturbances and crises caused by their conflicting backgrounds and their hard-to-reconcile designs for living - as a woman, as a man, as writers. In addition to the almost two hundred letters, the volume includes an important exchange between Bachmann and Gisele Celan-Lestrange, who married Celan in 1951, as well as letters between Paul Celan and Swiss writer Max Frisch.
