Travel Pictures: Including The Tour In The Harz, Norderney, And Book Of Ideas, Together With The Romantic School (classic Reprint)

By: Heinrich Heine and Peter Wortsman

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Synopsis: Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), one of Germany's most revered poets, is equally well-known for his idiosyncratic prose, the vibrant voice of which feels astonishingly modern in its familiar tone and thematic acrobatics. Travel Pictures comprises the accounts of four journeys taken at different times in his life. The opening "Harz Journey," a quirky chronicle of his walking tour in the Harz Mountains, is the text that first made him famous. But in all four accounts, Heine, seasoned by the skepticism of a born outsider, does more than climb mountains, ford streams and cross borders. In this remarkable book, Heine propels German letters into the Modern mindset. Freud cites a few of Travel Pictures' most humorous passages in Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious. Heine's incomparable lyric vision lifts the book into the transcendent realm of great journey literature.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 398 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780981987309
Related ISBNs:: 9780979333033
Publisher:: Steerforth Press
Date of Addition:: 05/12/21
Copyrighted By:: Heinrich Heine, Peter Wortsman
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Travel, Poetry, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Translator:: Peter Wortsman