Collected Prose - Hardcover

Celan, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0935296921 ISBN 13: 9780935296921

Publisher: Sheep Meadow Press, 1990

Synopsis

Essays and speeches deal with Jewish heritage, alienation from society, and the nature of writing

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About the Author

Paul Celan was born in Bukowina, Romania, in 1920. His parents died at the hands of the German army in 1942. He escaped, survived a period in a labor camp, and eventually settled in Paris where he taught and wrote. He received the Buechner Prize, Germany's most prestigious literary award, before he died by suicide in 1970.

Reviews

For Celan, the Romanian-born poet who survived a Nazi labor camp and committed suicide in 1970, poetry aspired to silence. His sparse, intense prose pieces, gathered in this small volume, reflect both his mistrust of the medium of language and his use of words "to orient myself, to find out where I was." As a Jew living in postwar Paris, Celan felt a stranger to culture, society, even to nature, a feeling conveyed in the hypnotic, repetitive "Conversation in the Mountains." Deftly translated from the German, the book includes essays, letters, aphorisms, parables, speeches, responses to questionnaires, and introductions to his translations of Russian poets Osip Mandelstam and Alexandercorrect (i've seen variant Aleksander).eed/that's the difficulty with transliterations, many variants.leave as is.gs Blok. "Racked by reality and in search of it," Celan pushes language to the limits of expressiveness in these groping, incantatory pieces.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Sheep Meadow Press
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0935296921
• ISBN 13: 9780935296921
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 80