Rahel Varnhagen a Portrait
Contributors: Arthur G. Chater (Translator)
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: January 31, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781417910793
Subjects: Biography: general; Women; Biography/Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Judaism - History; Religious
First sentence: NOW and then we meet is life or in letters with a person-sometimes a man, but more often a a woman-who occupies no exceptional position, either through creative genius, or artistic execution, or even through learning, energy, or beauty, and yet this being exercises so decisive a power over our existence that our life comes under an indestructible influence, but at the same time one from which our own liberation proceeds.