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Paul Celan: Selections
Paul Celan
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Description for Paul Celan: Selections
Paperback. Editor(s): Joris, Pierre. Series: Poets for the Millennium S. Num Pages: 242 pages, 13 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 54.
The best introduction to the work of Paul Celan, this anthology offers a broad collection of his writing in unsurpassed English translations along with a wealth of commentaries by major writers and philosophers. The present selection is based on Celan's own 1968 selected poems, though enlarged to include both earlier and later poems, as well as two prose works, The Meridian, Celan's core statement on poetics, and the narrative Conversation in the Mountains. This volume also includes letters to Celan's wife, the artist Gisele Celan-Lestrange; to his friend Erich Einhorn; and to Rene Char and Jean-Paul Sartre - all appearing ... Read more
The best introduction to the work of Paul Celan, this anthology offers a broad collection of his writing in unsurpassed English translations along with a wealth of commentaries by major writers and philosophers. The present selection is based on Celan's own 1968 selected poems, though enlarged to include both earlier and later poems, as well as two prose works, The Meridian, Celan's core statement on poetics, and the narrative Conversation in the Mountains. This volume also includes letters to Celan's wife, the artist Gisele Celan-Lestrange; to his friend Erich Einhorn; and to Rene Char and Jean-Paul Sartre - all appearing ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
242
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Series
Poets for the Millennium S.
Condition
New
Number of Pages
242
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520241688
SKU
V9780520241688
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About Paul Celan
One of the greatest poets to write in German and among the most gifted writers of the twentieth century in any language, Paul Celan was born in Czernowitz, Bukovina, in 1920. He survived the Holocaust and settled in Paris in 1948, where he lived until his suicide by drowning in 1970. Pierre Joris is the author of many books of ... Read more
Reviews for Paul Celan: Selections
No twentieth-century poet pierces the heart of language with such an exquisite blade as Paul Celan. With Pierre Joris & company's translations of key poems, poetics, letters, and exemplary commentary, it is as if we are reading Celan for the last time, once again.