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Collected ProsePaul CelanTranslated by Rosmarie Waldrop![]() 10% off
Categories: 20th Century, German
Imprint: FyfieldBooks Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (68 pages) (Pub. Apr 2003) 9781857546910 £9.95 £8.96
He taught the Law of Gravity, furnished proof after proof, but people turned deaf ears. Then he took off into the air and, floating there, repeated the lesson. Now people believed. But nobody was surprised when he did not come down again.
Paul Celan (1920-1970) stands as one of the greatest post-war European poets, a writer whose painful struggle with the possibilities and limitations of German, his native language, has helped to define the response of poetry in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
Celan's prose is as thought-provoking as, and less familiar than, his poetry. The writings and aphorisms on poetry and art illuminate the sources of his language: he explores the condition of being a stranger in the world, the necessity - and limitation - of discourse, enlarging our understanding of the poet and his vocation. A spare and reluctant prose writer, Celan speaks with a quiet authority that insists on the centrality of poetry in the modern world. Rosmarie Waldrop's translation remains true to the poetic rhythms of Celan's prose; her introduction sets the pieces in context.
Table of Contents
Introduction - Rosemarie Waldrop Prose Edgar Jené and the Dream about the Dream Backlight [Reply to a Questionnaire from the Flinker Bookstore, Paris, 1958 Conversation in the Mountains [Reply to a Questionnaire from the Flinker Bookstore, Paris, 1961 [Letter to Hans Bender [Reply to a Poll by Der Spiegel La poésie ne s'impose plus, elle s'expose Speeches Speech on the Occasion of Receiving the Literature Prize of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen The Meridian [Address to the Hebrew Writers'Association Appendices Introductory Notes to the Translations of Blok and Mandelstam Sources
Awards won by Paul Celan
Winner, 1990 European Poetry Translation Prize (Poems of Paul Celan)
Praise for Paul Celan
'The correspondence includes lovely Sachs poems and interesting accounts of their meeting and of contact with other prominent writers of the time. The introduction and afterword are indispensable, as is the entire book.'
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