9780857426420-0857426427-Correspondence (The German List)

Correspondence (The German List)

ISBN-13: 9780857426420
ISBN-10: 0857426427
Edition: Reprint
Author: Ingeborg Bachmann, Paul Celan
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Seagull Books
Format: Paperback 400 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780857426420
ISBN-10: 0857426427
Edition: Reprint
Author: Ingeborg Bachmann, Paul Celan
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Seagull Books
Format: Paperback 400 pages

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Correspondence (The German List) (ISBN-13: 9780857426420 and ISBN-10: 0857426427), written by authors Ingeborg Bachmann, Paul Celan, was published by Seagull Books in 2019. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other Authors (Arts & Literature) books. You can easily purchase or rent Correspondence (The German List) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Authors books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.96.

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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 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 200 letters, the volume includes an important exchange between Bachmann and Gisèle Celan-Lestrange, who married Celan in 1951, as well as the letters between Paul Celan and Swiss writer Max Frisch.

“Scarcely more breathlessly and desperately can two lovers ever have struggled for words. Little known among German literary historians, the relationship between these two poets amounts to one of the most dramatic and momentous occurrences in German literature.”—FAZ, on the German edition

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