Ballad of the Buried Life / Rudolf Hagelstange ; translated by Herman Salinger ; with an introduction by Charles W. Hoffmann.

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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Place / Publishing House:Baltimore, Maryland : : Project Muse,, 2020
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
German
Series:University of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ; no. 38.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxii, 106 pages.)
Notes:Poems.
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Other title:Ballade vom verschütteten Leben.
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.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:1469658283
Access:Open access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Rudolf Hagelstange ; translated by Herman Salinger ; with an introduction by Charles W. Hoffmann.