Nelly Sachs, Flucht und Verwandlung [Flight and Metamorphosis]

Jennifer Hoyer (University of Arkansas)

Ed. by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1959

Places

Germany (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Poem collection

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Flucht und Verwandlung

[

Flight and Metamorphosis

] by Nelly Sachs, published in 1959 by the Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, is the final complete volume of poems published before, and therefore included in, the first Sachs anthology

Fahrt ins Staublose: Die Gedichte der Nelly Sachs

[

Journey into Dustlessness

, Suhrkamp 1961]. Unlike Sachs’ previous volumes

In den Wohnungen des Todes

(1947),

Sternverdunkelung

(1949), and

Und niemand weiss weiter

(1957), all collections of cycles revolving around a central dialectical concept (life/death; remembering/forgetting; living on/downfall),

Flucht und Verwandlung

is itself one long cycle on the dialectic “Flucht und Verwandlung”, that is of flight and metamorphosis. Sachs herself referred to the cycle as “35 hymnische Gesänge” [“35 hymn-like…

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Citation: Hoyer, Jennifer. "Flucht und Verwandlung". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 June 2009 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=20747, accessed 25 April 2024.]

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