Volume 53, Number 16 · October 19, 2006
The Poet in the Tower
By J.M. Coetzee
Poems and Fragments
by Friedrich Hölderlin, translated from the German by Michael Hamburger
London: Anvil, 823 pp., $29.95 (paper)
In the depths of the Second World War, in a London battered by German bombs, a young Jew named Michael Hamburger penned a lament in the voice of the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin:
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