Name: I Just Let Life Rain Down on Me: Selected Letters and Reflections (en Inglés)
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Author: Varnhagen, Rahel Levin ; Wortsman, Peter ; Wortsman, Peter
ISBN: 9781803093369

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I Just Let Life Rain Down on Me: Selected Letters and Reflections (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Rahel Levin Varnhagen

Ilustrado por

Peter Wortsman

Traducido por

Peter Wortsman

Editorial

Seagull Books

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

232

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9781803093369

Categorías

Relativo a personas o grupos judíos
Biografía: general
Diarios, correspondencia
Grupos sociales: grupos y comunidades religiosas

I Just Let Life Rain Down on Me: Selected Letters and Reflections (en Inglés)

Rahel Levin Varnhagen (Autor) · Peter Wortsman (Ilustrado por, Traducido por) · Seagull Books · Tapa Dura

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A personal look into the mind of one of Europe's first and foremost women of letters. At times poetic but not a poem, prosaic but not an essay, a letter is often pure writing for writing's sake. Such is the case for Rahel Varnhagen von Ense, née Levin, the illustrious German-Jewish Berlin literary salon hostess from the early nineteenth century. She penned over ten thousand letters to more than three hundred recipients, including princes, philosophers, poets, family members, and the family cook. Written with a wink at posterity, collected and first published after her passing by her husband, Karl August Varnhagen von Ense, these letters constitute a singular contribution to German literature. Varied in subject--from family affairs to linguistic, literary, and pressing social concerns--the poignant lyricism of her letters is all the more remarkable when we take into account that High German was not her first language; she grew up speaking, reading, and writing primarily Yiddish. Her shaky social status as a woman and a member of a precarious minority, combined with an astounding lucidity and a rare capacity to put her thoughts into words, made her a force to be reckoned with in her lifetime and thereafter as one of Germany's preeminent women of letters. As we see in I Just Let Life Rain Down on Me, her voice is as fresh and original as that of any of the recognized poets and thinkers of her day. As Rahel herself put it: "[O]ur language is our lived life; I invented mine for my own purposes, I was less able than many others to make use of preconceived turns of phrase, which is why mine are often clumsy, and in all respects faulty, but always true." Compiled and translated by Peter Wortsman, this rewarding volume affords English-speaking readers the first privileged peek at the mindset of one of Europe's first and foremost women of letters.