Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan
Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan Paul Celan was born in 1920 in the East European province of Bukovina. Self-exiled in Paris, for twenty-five years Celan continued writing in his German mother…
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Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan
Paul Celan was born in 1920 in the East European province of Bukovina. Self-exiled in Paris, for twenty-five years Celan continued writing in his German mother tongue, although it had passed through the thousand darknesses of deathbringing speech. Soon after his parents, German-speaking Jews, had perished at the hands of the Nazis, Celan wrote Todesfuge (Deathfugue), the most compelling poem to emerge from the Holocaust.
But in 1970, his psychic wounds unhealed, Celan drowned himself in the Seine. His writing purges and remakes that language, often achieving a hope-struck radiance never before seen in modern poetry. This landmark volume includes youthful lyrics, unpublished poems, and prose.
All poems appear in the original and in translation on facing pages. John Felstiner's translations stem from a twenty-year immersion in Celan's life and work. John Bayley wrote in the New York
Poems of Paul Celan
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