If I Only Knew

Name: If I Only Knew
SKU: 9781911469391
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Author: Nellie Sachs
ISBN: 9781911469391

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

AvNellie Sachs

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Known as a poet who spoke of the history and suffering of the Jewish people, Nelly Sachs was, at the time she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966, highly regarded in her native Germany, frequently being described as a poet of reconciliation and healing, although whether she was is open to debate.Because of the complexity of her later poetry, she is often regarded as a difficult poet, but her work is not difficult to understand if it is read against the backdrop of the events that gave rise to it, and in the context of her own development as a poet. Jean Boase-Beier’s striking translations focus on what she sees as Sachs’ very particular voice, one of outrage, despair, and grief, but also of enquiry, of irony, and often of straightforward anger.This chapbook, by presenting a small number of poems from throughout the poet’s main writing years and providing some general background together with short contextual explanations to individual poems, gives new readers a reason to read Nelly Sachs.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-12-20
Mått138 x 216 x 8 mm
Vikt83 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor48
FörlagArc Publications
ISBN9781911469391
ÖversättareJean Boase-Beier

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Leonie Sachs, always known as Nelly, was born in Berlin in 1891, into a wealthy Jewish family. An only child, close to both parents, Nelly had a sheltered, contented childhood, but suffered a serious mental breakdown in her late teens. She recovered, nursing her father in his final illness, and publishing accomplished but not very original poems in journals and newspapers until the Nazis came to power in 1933. After the war began, having spent the next year living in fear for their lives, Sachs and her mother escaped to Sweden in 1940, where Sachs became a translator of modern Swedish poetry into German, continuing to publish her own work, now influenced by the new poetry she had translated, as well as, increasingly, by the events of the Holocaust and her growing understanding of Jewish culture. She became a Swedish citizen in 1952. She suffered several more mental breakdowns, affected by the trauma of her time in Nazi Germany, the fate of the European Jews, and the death of her mother. But she wrote prolifically, and her poetry became very highly regarded in Germany. In 1966 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. She died in 1970.Jean Boase-Beier is Emeritus Professor of Literature and Translation. She founded UEA’s MA in Literary Translation and ran it until 2015. Her academic work focuses particularly on translation, style and poetry, and especially on the translation of Holocaust poetry. Recent publications include A Critical Introduction to Translation Studies (2011, Bloomsbury) and Translating the Poetry of the Holocaust (2015, Bloomsbury). Current research, which follows on from a recent AHRC project ‘Translating the Poetry of the Holocaust’ is on the influence of Russian Formalism and Prague Structuralism on the thinking of Benjamin, Celan, Brecht and others. Jean Boase-Beier is also a translator of poetry from and into German and is the Translations Editor for Arc Publications.