Nelly Sachs

Exodus – from Dust

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Nelly Sachs
Exodus – from Dust / Fahrt ins Staublose
Poems
The first collection with Suhrkamp by the Nobel Prize winner
The entire oeuvre of Nelly Sachs is an exodus from dust. But the exodus begins with the self, with the »dust that covers the light«. It begins in the »houses of death«. This book speaks of the concentration camps, of their epitaphs, which are »written in the air«, like the smoke, into which the bodies of the victims were transformed. The hangmen, their accomplices, and the complicit masses are not forgiven, but nor are they threstened.
 
The entire oeuvre of Nelly Sachs is an exodus from dust. But the exodus begins with the self, with the »dust that covers the light«. It begins in the »houses of death«. This book speaks of the concentration camps, of their epitaphs, which are »written in the air«, like the smoke, into which the bodies of the victims were transformed. The hangmen, their accomplices, and the complicit masses are not forgiven, but nor are they threstened.
 
1961, 386 pages
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Nelly Sachs

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Nelly Sachs was born into a liberal Jewish family of entrepreneurs on December 10, 1891 in Berlin. In 1940, after the death of her father, she went into exile in Sweden with her mother and became a Swedish citizen in 1953. She was the first woman to receive the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 1965 and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966 together with Samuel Agnon. Nelly Sachs died in Stockholm on May 12, 1970, the day of Paul Celan’s funeral.

Nelly Sachs was born into a liberal Jewish family of entrepreneurs on December 10, 1891 in Berlin. In 1940, after the death of her father, she...

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Works. Commented Edition in Four Volumes
Year of Publication: 2010
Nelly SachsYear of Publication: 2010

Works. Commented Edition in Four Volumes

Sachs’ volumes of poetry, greatly influenced by the experience of the Shoah, have received profound reception throughout the world, In the Habitations of Death, Flight and...

Rights sold to:

For further information regarding the rights status of the Works or single volumes in your territory please contact the respective Rights Manager.

Works. Commented Edition in Four Volumes
Year of Publication: 2010
Nelly SachsYear of Publication: 2010

Works. Commented Edition in Four Volumes

Sachs’ volumes of poetry, greatly influenced by the experience of the Shoah, have received profound reception throughout the world, In the Habitations of Death, Flight and...

Rights sold to:

For further information regarding the rights status of the Works or single volumes in your territory please contact the respective Rights Manager.

Works. Commented Edition in Four Volumes
Year of Publication: 2010
Nelly SachsYear of Publication: 2010

Works. Commented Edition in Four Volumes

Sachs’ volumes of poetry, greatly influenced by the experience of the Shoah, have received profound reception throughout the world, In the Habitations of Death, Flight and...

Rights sold to:

Italy (Giuntina), Korea (Yolimwon)

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The Sachs–Celan Correspondence
Year of Publication: 1993
Paul Celan, Nelly SachsYear of Publication: 1993

The Sachs–Celan Correspondence

Here are the letters between Nelly Sachs (1891–1970), recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature, and the great German-speaking poet Paul Celan (1920–1970). Their correspondence lasted from...
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