Revelation freshly erupting
The case of Nelly Sachs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5759931 |
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| Authors | Andrew Shanks (Manchester Cathedral, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 113 |
| Issue | 874 |
| Pages | 260-266 |
| Publication date | 2010-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-571X • E-ISSN: 2044-2696 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0040571x1011300404 |
| OpenAlex | W2208713080 |
| Language | EN |
Can modern poetry be said to have a 'revelatory' quality, in theological terms? Arguably the strongest candidate for such an accolade is the work of Nelly Sachs. Here is 'poetry after Auschwitz', by a Holocaust escapee, of unique religious intensity. Sachs was awarded the Nobel Prize for her poetry in 1966. And yet her work remains almost completely unknown in the English-speaking world, a state of affairs that surely needs remedying
Art · Literature · Poetry · Revelation · The Holocaust · Theology · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
| Highly cited | No |
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