Nelly Sachs: Life and Work: A Critical Biography of "The Poet of the Holocaust"

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Erhard Bahr
UCLA; Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA 90024-4201)

To write a monograph on the life and work of Nelly Sachs, to present a new assessment of her literary achievements, and to provide an interpretation of her works which have not been treated before. Nelly Sachs, who won the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1966, is virtually unknown outside of Germany and Sweden. She has been called the poet of the Jewish Holocaust.