Description: Further DetailsTitle: CorrespondenceCondition: NewEAN: 9780857426420ISBN: 9780857426420Publisher: Seagull Books London LtdFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 11/08/2019Item Height: 20mmItem Length: 13mmAuthor: Ingeborg Bachmann, Paul CelanTranslator: Wieland HobanContributor: Wieland Hoban (Translated by)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0857426427Description: Paul Celan (192070) 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 (192673) is recognized as one of postWorld 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 Gisle Celan-Lestrange, who married Celan in 1951, as well as the letters between Paul Celan and Swiss writer Max Frisch, who was Bachmann's lover for four years. 'Wieland Hoban has worked with accuracy and determination to capture the nuances of style and register, which include oblique awkwardness (Celan) and self-assuredness (Bachmann), alongside infinite courage and astounding strength (Celan-Lestrange). The translation reads well, with just a slight edge of the original diction remaining to remind readers that we are witnessing a different time and place, and way of perceiving the world. . . . This is an important addition tot he work in translation of two major post-war writers.' - Times Literary Supplement 'This book is highly recommended. You cannot possibly be disappointed by it, especially if you are familiar with these writers' literary output, each of which left the world a completely original, masterful, and highly influential body of work. The letters move from youthful heartbreak and poetical exuberance to the destructive later exchanges between two people who cannot trust one another although they are, until the end, drawn to each other. It's not a book you read and shelve. It's a book to read and reread, a book to treasure.' - Shigekuni. Read the lengthy, detailed and enligtening review of the book here. 'Correspondence, rendered perfectly in English by Wieland Hoban, traces [Celan and Bachmann's] letters, telegrams, and book inscriptions to one another, color-coded and augmented by hundreds of footnotes. Like other volumes from Seagull Books, it's physically gorgeous, with a pleasingly compact trim size. Reading Correspondence feels like an indulgence. It also feels disorienting. The world of the letters and the world of their authors' real lives are askew in a sometimes jarring way, so that the emotional content of the letters reads almost as fiction.' - Aaron Belz, Books & CultureCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBBook Series: German ListGenre: Literary CriticismTopic: BiographyRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Correspondence
Title: Correspondence
EAN: 9780857426420
ISBN: 9780857426420
Release Date: 11/08/2019
Release Year: 2019
Translator: Wieland Hoban
Contributor: Wieland Hoban (Translated by)
ISBN-10: 0857426427
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Series: German List
Book Title: Correspondence
Number of Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Seagull Books
Topic: Women Authors, European / German, European / General, Literary
Publication Year: 2019
Item Height: 1.3 in
Genre: Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 17.5 Oz
Author: Paul Celan, Ingeborg Bachmann
Item Length: 8 in
Book Series: The German List Ser.
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
