TY - GEN TY - GEN T1 - Heinrich Heine : writing the revolution T2 - Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.) A1 - Prochnik, George, kirjoittaja LA - eng PP - New Haven PB - Yale University Press YR - 2020 UL - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5498809 AB - 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. SN - 978-0-300-23654-5 sidottu KW - Heine, Heinrich, : 1797-1856. KW - 1800-1899 KW - Authors, German : 19th century : Biography. KW - Authors, German. ER -