The story of Vazeh and Bodenstedt is one of the ancient symbols of cultural bridges between Azerbaijan and Germany.

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with only 71 poems (a handful of which were found in her letters, not the handbound books), organized in chronological order with the English translations facing the German originals. (Though Arendt ...

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“The absolute poem — no, it certainly does not, cannot, exist,” Celan said in a famous speech in Germany in 1960, when he was awarded a literary prize. And so the translator of Celan has ...

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Leonard Peikoff dedicated his life to promoting the author’s vision of freedom and self-determination. But at what cost?