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Article: Heinrich Heine. Travel Pictures.(Book review)
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- The Review of Contemporary Fiction
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- September 22, 2008
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Heinrich Heine. Travel Pictures. Trans. Peter Wortsman. Archipelago Books, 2008. 223 pp. Paper: $17.00.
Heinrich Heine's lyric poetry stands as a hallmark of nineteenth-century German literature, nestled between the twin pillars of Teutonic letters, Goethe, and Thomas Mann. Much less known today is the prose Heine--a writer of acerbic wit, at turns parodic and dyspeptic, but decidedly modern. Peter Wortsman's new translation of Travel Pictures, Heine's major early work, reveals a mercurial writer with a vitriolic streak, one whose comic voice is equal match to his lyricism. Published between 1826 and 1831, the book collected journeys to the Harz region in ...
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