School of Romanticism

Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) wrote The School of Romanticism not only for Germany, but for all of Europe, at a time when Europe was experiencing turmoil in the process of leaving the past behind and turning to the future. He wrote this text when he left Germany behind and started a new life in Paris.

Heine, who was ostracized even in his own country because he was a Jew, saw the solution to the contradictions of the new Europe that was taking shape in Europeanism, not in the nationalisms nurtured by the romantics. The sarcasm in his view of the events of his time shows itself in its most colorful form in this book, where he tells about his "schoolmates" who seek to glorify the past and history. The fact that the past is not left behind and that the present carries the past on its back appears before us with the most striking pictures in the field of literature. We hope that the reader will find himself in an endless conversation about Germany and Europe on the streets of Paris...

"A strange, frightening curiosity that often drives people to peer into the graves of the past! Such things happen in extraordinary times, after the end of an era or before some great catastrophe."
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 208

Year of Printing: 2015


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Yapı Kredi Publications

Editor: Fahri Güllüoğlu

First Print Year: 2015

Language Turkish