Read Online Lenz / Der hessische Landbote German Edition Georg Büchner 9783847829584 Books

Product details Paperback 40 pages Publisher Henricus (March 5, 2019) Language German ISBN-10 3847829580

Lenz / Der hessische Landbote German Edition Georg Büchner 9783847829584 Books Reviews

• Astonishing! An invaluable contribution to an English-language view of Romanticism/Modernism that justifies Carlyle's injunction to close your Byron and open your Goethe. Follow Herzog's lead in the epithet for "Every Man for Himself and All Against God" read and re-read "Lentz" in Archipelago's handsome bilingual edition with the German brilliantly translated,annotated, and commented on by Richard Sieburth. A gem of a book to hold, to read, to contemplate.
• This this deep German prose translated into English. A troubling account of one man's life and it's effect on others around him.
• Compelling translation of a far not enough known masterpiece, this edition of Lenz can be read in one sitting - correction, cannot but be read in one sitting.
  Richard Sieburth, currently a mostly admired professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at NYU, does a great job in rendering in English the fragmented structure and excruciating rhythm of Lenz's thoughts and action as he breaks down into paranoiac attacks and suicidal attempts. This Lenz is the essence of the Romantic narrative, but at the same time has that note of modern stream of consciousness that makes it appealing to a larger audience.
  The book includes both versions of Lenz's story, the one told by Oberlin's diaries and the one reorganized by Buchner, as well as ample commentaries and a text by Goethe (not by chance, since Lenz was among Goethe's greatest admirers and emulators).
  This edition, sold by an independent publishing house in Brooklyn, is just the perfect size to always keep in your pocket.
• This is a great book with 5 short stories in it. The German on one page and English on another is very helpful. I would recommend this book to anyone learning German.