Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan - Hardcover

Celan, Paul; Felstiner, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 039304999X ISBN 13: 9780393049992

Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2000

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Book by Celan Paul

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Paul Celan was born in Bukovina in 1920, and lost his parents, German-speaking Jews, at the hands of the Nazis. This volume includes youthful lyrics, unpublished poems and prose. Celan continued writing in German to purge and remake the language the deathbringing speech.

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Paul Celan was born in 1920 in the East European province of Bukovina. Soon after his parents, German-speaking Jews, had perished at the hands of the Nazis, Celan wrote "Todesfuge" ("Death-fugue"), the most compelling poem to emerge from the Holocaust. Self-exited 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". His writing purges and remakes that language, often achieving a hope-struck radiance never before seen in modern poetry. But in 1970, his psychic wounds unhealed, Celan drowned himself in the Seine.

This landmark volume includes youthful lyrics, unpublished poems, and prose.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 Review of Books. "Felstiner translates. . . brilliantly".

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• Verlag: WW Norton & Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 039304999X
• ISBN 13: 9780393049992
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 464