Heine: Jewish Thinkers Series
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Heine: Jewish Thinkers Series
By (Author) Ritchie Robertson
Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
8th December 2005
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
831.7
Physical Properties
Paperback
128
Width 127mm, Height 198mm, Spine 11mm
139g
Description
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) is one of Germany's greatest writers of verse and prose. His agile mind and brilliant wit expressed themselves in lyric and satiric verse, travel writing and essays on literature, art, politics and history. He was a great satirist and thinker - but not a philosopher. One of his most perceptive admirers, Friedrich Nietzsche, said of him, 'he possessed that divine malice without which perfection, for me, is unimaginable'. Born into a world changed forever by the French Revolution, Heine grew up in a Dusseldorf that formed part of the Napoleonic Empire. He was always acutely aware of history and politics and engaged with them in all his writings.
Author Bio
Ritchie Robertson is a Professor of German at Oxford University and Fellow of St John's. He specialises in German literature from the mid-eighteenth century to the present.
