THE FIGHT OF HEINRICH HEINE AGAINST FORMS OF NATIONALISM AND PROVINCIALISM DURING HIS EXILE IN PARIS
THE FIGHT OF HEINRICH HEINE AGAINST FORMS OF NATIONALISM AND PROVINCIALISM DURING HIS EXILE IN PARIS

Summary/Abstract: As a man of his century, Heinrich Heine had also lived the frustrations of his time. Many of his works were written in exile. His writing may have absorbed the fear of the migrant, fear about losing his identity. Heine lived the drama of people who migrate to new horizons, to new cultural spaces, surviving as a stranger who had not lost the hope to have a better life abroad. Heine lived in a Europe of troubled times, his works revealed the stranger`s impossibility to toss away the otherness he represents. In poetry and prose, he shifted from late Romanticism to Realism, a literary current that would fully appear in German literature starting with the second half of the nineteenth century. The article follows the traces of his life and work also in the light of his portrait made for readers by the former generations of his critics in Romanian language.

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