Heinrich Heine: Writing the Revolution, Hardcover/George Prochnik

Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) was a virtuoso German poet, satirist, and visionary humanist best known for his lyric poetry. In this vividly imagined exploration of Heine's life and work, George Prochnik describes a fully dimensional character while also casting into sharp relief the reasons his writing and example matter urgently today. About author(s): George Prochnik is the author of Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem . His previous book, The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World , received the 2014 National Jewish Book Award for Biography/Memoir.