Hiddensee

Hiddensee is Annie Freud's most ambitious work to date, not least because it is a book about ambition and its necessity, the urge to reach beyond oneself and accomplish what one cannot: Freud delves into other ways of thought, other art forms, disease, and desire taboos, and - astonishingly – other languages. This goal has also encouraged Freud to investigate and confront the complicated reality of herself: her German Jewish ancestors, her professors, the great brains of the exiled persons who reared her – and the exiles she herself later pursued.

The book also honors the work of Jacques Tornay, a French-language Swiss poet whom Freud regards as a spiritual brother – and a gateway back into her own French and symbolist inspirations. Hiddensee is named after the Baltic island where Annie Freud's grandmother spent her summers before the war. Hiddensee, with its unselfconscious internationalism and amazing cultural breadth, gives a genuinely European and multilingual vision to challenge the current era's cultural narrowness and closing borders and establishes Freud as one of the most important poets.

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Author: Annie Freud
Link to read: goodreads.com/book/show/56611823-hiddensee