Ballad of the Buried Life /

A news item concerning six German soldiers trapped for years in the army food storage bunker provided Rudolf Hagelstange with a plot and an effective symbol to express the tensions, emotions, and paradoxes of modern man's being. In this volume the poet Herman Salinger translates Hagelstange...

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Main Author: Hagelstange, Rudolf (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
German
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Series:University of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ; no. 38.
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Summary:A news item concerning six German soldiers trapped for years in the army food storage bunker provided Rudolf Hagelstange with a plot and an effective symbol to express the tensions, emotions, and paradoxes of modern man's being. In this volume the poet Herman Salinger translates Hagelstange's poem into verse with the original German on facing pages. An introductory essay by Charles W. Hoffmann gives context on Hagelstange and the ballad.
Item Description:Poems.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (132 pages).
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781469658285
Access:Open Access