Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan - Softcover

Celan, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393322246 ISBN 13: 9780393322248

Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001

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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" ("Deathfugue"), the most compelling poem to emerge from the Holocaust. 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." 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 This landmark volume includes youthful lyrics, unpublished poems, and prose.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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Paul Celan was a poet and translator born in the East European province of Bukovina. Soon after his parents, German-speaking Jews, had perished at the hands of the Nazis, Celan wrote the poem "Todesfuge" ("Deathfugue"), which depicted life in a German concentration camp.

John Felstiner is the author of Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew. He teaches at Stanford University.

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• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0393322246
• ISBN 13: 9780393322248
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 466
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