Travel Pictures

by Heine, Heinrich; Wortsman, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780979333033
• ISBN10: 0979333032
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-28
• Publisher: Archipelago

Summary

One of Germany's most illustrious poets, Heinrich Heine is also celebrated for his idiosyncratic and vibrant prose. Heine's lyrical, humorous, and revealing vision in these four accounts of his voyages in Italy and Germany raises Travel Pictures into the transcendent realm of great journey literature. Over one hundred poems pepper the text. Heinrich Heine (17971856) was one of the most significant German Romantic poets. Many of his poems were set to music by Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Brahms. Peter Wortsman is an author and translator. His translations from the German include work by Robert Musil, Peter Altenberg, and Adelbert von Chamisso.

Author Biography

Heinrich Heine (1791–1856) was a journalist, an essayist, and one of the most celebrated German Romantic poets. As a young man Heine converted from Judaism to Protestantism. In 1831, he emigrated from Germany to France. Heine is remembered chiefly for selections of his lyric poetry, many of which were set to song by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, and Strauss.

Recipient of the 2012 Gold Grand Prize for Best Travel Story of the Year, Peter Wortsman is the author of A Modern Way to Die: Small Stories and Microtales, the plays The Tattooed Man Tells All and Burning Words, the recent memoir Ghost Dance in Berlin: A Rhapsody in Gray, and the forthcoming novel Cold Earth Wanderers. His translations from the German include Robert Musil¢s Posthumous Papers of a Living Author, Heinrich Heine¢s Travel Pictures, Peter Altenberg¢s Telegrams of the Soul, and Tales of the German Imagination: From The Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann, an anthology published by Penguin Classics.

Table of Contents

The Harz Journey	p. 11
The North Sea	p. 69
The Baths of Lucca	p. 97
The City of Lucca	p. 161
Subsequent Postscript	p. 203
Hiking Through Heaven and Hell: Reflections on Heinrich Heine's Travel Pictures	p. 207
Notes	p. 219
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