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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.
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Pawel died in 1994; this last masterly work by the author of Life in the Dark Ages: A Memoir (LJ 5/1/95) and the biographer of Kafka and Theodor Herzl focuses on the last years in the life of the German poet Heinrich Heine in his Parisian exile. Although Heine was happiest during his early years in Paris, many of his finest poems were composed during the final years preceding his death in 1856-poetic laments and meditations on the bleak human condition. During those years, Heine's health deteriorated; from the spring of 1848 he was confined to his "mattress-grave," partially blind, paralyzed, and suffering from a venereal disease. For many years Heine was more appreciated and celebrated abroad than in his home country, partly because of his satirical, aggressive writing-which got him into trouble with the German authorities-and partly because of his Jewish origins. Pawel offers here a thorough and expert analysis of one of Germany's most important poets. Strongly recommended.
Ali Houissa, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, N.Y.
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The late Pawel, award-winning biographer of Kafka (The Nightmare of Reason), has written a penetrating study of the great poet (1797-1856). The "enfant terrible of German letters" (Nietzsche said, "He possessed that divine malice without which I cannot conceive of perfection"), Heine was an elegant poet and unsparing journalist. His poetry, shaped by banishment from a Germany hostile to his Jewishness and to his pointed irreverence, flourished in Paris. As mysterious ill health overtook him in the last eight years of his life, confining him to his "mattress tomb," Heine confronted death in strikingly understated, carefully controlled verse. He retained his sardonic sense of humor as well: "It is already expensive enough to live in Paris. But dying in Paris is infinitely more expensive. And to think that I could now be hanged for free in Germany or in Hungary." With an appendix of Heine's poems in German and English.
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- PublisherFarrar Straus & Giroux
- Publication date1995
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- ISBN 13 9780374235383
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