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Paul Celan, Europe's most compelling postwar poet, was a German-speaking, East European Jew. His writing exposes and illumines the wounds that Nazi destructiveness left on language. John Felstiner's sensitive and accessible book is the first critical biography of Celan in any language. It offers new translations of well-known and little-known poems, with a chapter on Celan's famous "Deathfugue", plus his speeches, prose fiction, and letters. The book also presents hitherto unpublished photos of the poet and his circle.

"Celan's splendor has been brought to life, and his silence brought to speech, by a book that is a labor not just of love but of passion....[A] revelation to readers barred by the poetry's double inaccessibility (it is in German, and it is difficult for Germans)....[I]t is a pilgrimage to a hard place by a pilgrim who does all the walking we do and, astonishingly, gets us up there."

Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review, 06/11/1995

"John Felstiner teaches us how to pay better attention to one of the most serious and rewarding poets of our time."

Elie Wiesel

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