Book Tips - Nelly Sachs
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1966 was awarded to Nelly Sachs "for her outstanding lyrical and dramatic writing, which interprets Israel's destiny with touching strength" .
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Eclipse of the Stars
Leonie Nelly Sachs happens to be the first individual whom I know as a Nobel Laureate in literature. I was a boy of ten in rural Punjab(India) when a distant uncle; Ranjit Singh told me about her works and the Nobel Prize. I read her but could not understand anything. I empowered myself- today I know Mme Nelly like the backside of my own hands. An immense Lady whom bitterness could not embitter. I like her" Eclipse of the Stars" because of its uninterrupted beauty despite loads of pathos. Thanks.
/Dilbag Firdausi, India
/Dilbag Firdausi, India
Eli: A Mystery Play of the Sufferings of Israel (Eli, ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels)
Nelly Sachs used exquisite German, replete with images drawn from the Jewish mystification - particularly Hassidism. She seems to defy Theodor Wisengrund dictum that "after Austerwitz; it is no longer possible to create a poem". I recommend her 'Eli, A Mystery Play about Israel's Sufferings’. It depicts the sufferings of an eight year old boy in a Jewish town in Poland- a town destroyed in the war. This book affects the readers so much that, invariably, one is left wiping one's cheeks and this book's pages time and again.
/Dilbag Firdausi, India
/Dilbag Firdausi, India
O the Chimneys: Selected Poems
I really love poems. I am curios about where she get the deep meaning in these poems.
/Wan Munir Najmi, Malaysia
/Wan Munir Najmi, Malaysia
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