Between the Lines A few days ago I read a sentenc…
Between the Lines
A few days ago I read a sentence including the words �the late Michael Hamburger�. Hamburger was one of the great translators of German. Ralph Mannheim brought us the novels, Hamburger the poets. His most notable success was the impossible-to-translate Paul Celan, but also Celan�s great forebear Friedrich H�lderlin (the Penguin edition doesn�t appear on Amazon). Hamburger also appears as a character in WG Sebald�s very odd but very rewarding book The Rings of Saturn.
In searching for an obituary, I found a site called, uninspiringly, Between the Lines. In spite of this, it has long, engrossing extracts of book-length interviews with veteran poets such as Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney as well as Michael Hamburger. See also Anthony Hecht�s grim memories of his time liberating occupied Europe in World War II.
Other SpikeMagazine.com posts of interest:
- New review of Celan books
- New Celan translations
- Lost Cities A beautiful and moving essay on Cav…
- Blanchot, Celan Reloaded
- Mr Stevens and Mr Cummings
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