02044cam a2200277Ii 4500001001300000003000600013007000300019008004100022020002500063020002200088035002200110050002200132100002200154245006500176260004900241300001200290490001700302504005100319520114900370600003301519650004601552830003601598942001201634952010701646999001301753on1146565404OCoLCta210205s2020    ctu      b    001 0beng d  a9780300236545 (hbk.)  a0300236549 (hbk.)  a(OCoLC)1146565404  aPT2328b.P76 20201 aProchnik, George.10aHeinrich Heine :bwriting the revolution /cGeorge Prochnik.  aNew Haven :bYale University Press, c[2020]  a319 p. 1 aJewish lives  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  aA 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.14aHeine, Heinrich,d1797-1856. 4aAuthors, Germany19th centuryxBiography. 0aJewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)  2lcccBK  00104070aPNLIBbPNLIBcGENd2021-06-17oPT2328 .P76 2020pPNLIB21060675r2021-06-17w2021-06-17yBK  c861d861