John Bayley wrote in the New York Review of Books, 'Felstiner translates. John Felstiner's translations stem from a twenty-year immersion in Celan's life and work. All poems appear in the original and in translation on facing pages. Arrives by Sat, Apr 22 Buy Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan (Pre-Owned Hardcover 9780393049992) by Paul Celan, Mr. This landmark volume includes youthful lyrics, unpublished poems, and prose. The most wide-ranging volume of the work of Europes leading postwar poet. The Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan by Celan, Paul, Felstiner, John (2002) Paperback Celan, Paul on. But in 1970, his psychic wounds unhealed, Celan drowned himself in the Seine. Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan (English, Hardcover, Celan Paul). This selection of poems, with the French text en face, provides a comprehensive selection. 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. About the Book Originally published: 1948 copyright renewed: 1976.

compelling poem to emerge from the Holocaust.

Soon after his parents, German-speaking Jews, had perished at the hands of the Nazis, Celan wrote 'Todesfuge' ('Deathfugue'), the most. Paul Celan was born in 1920 in the East European province of Bukovina. Request PDF Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan, and: Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan (review) Prairie Schooner 77.3 (2003) 174-181 A poem's lingerings or longings - a word related to. The most wide-ranging volume of the work of Europe's leading postwar poet.

Selected poems and prose of paul celan