The Correspondence of Paul Celan & Ilana Shmueli

by Celan, Paul; Shmueli, Ilana; Gillespie, Susan H.

• ISBN13: 9781931357890
• ISBN10: 1931357897
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-31
• Publisher: Sheep Meadow Pr

Summary

"Surely, this correspondence gives us a more intimate understanding of Celan than we have without it. Further, the correspondence introduces Shmueli, an important writer, to English readers for the first time. Ironically, the correspondence is a living account of their old and new environment, their art, culture and intelligence, their extraordinary dialogue. We also encounter the 'people and books' that inhabited their biography and their writing, the history of their inner landscape. It is a gift that deserves the deepest and consistent attention--that 'natural prayer of the soul,' as Ilana Shmueli says, quoting from Celan and Malebranche." --From the Introduction by Norman Manea

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction: Needing and Being Needed

Correspondence

Notes on a Walk through Jerusalem with Paul Celan in October 1965

Afterword

A Conversation between Norman Manesa and Ilana Shmueli

Notes

Translator's Note

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