Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, présentation d'une œuvre

Abstract

Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, born in 1924 in Czernowitz and who died in 1942 in a concentration camp in Transnistria, wrote between 1939 and 1941 a volume of poetry of great poetic power, which through a miracle managed to survive. A friend of her youth kept it and it was only published in 1978 in Tel Aviv and then again in 1980 in Hamburg, entitled Ich bin in Sehnsucht eingehuellt, followed by numberous editions by Fischer-Taschenbuch. Her work is presented here with special regard to its affinity with the poetry of Verlaine.