Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs

by Celan, Paul; Sachs, Nelly; Felstiner, John; Clark, Christopher; Wiedemann, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9781878818379
• ISBN10: 1878818376
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-10-01
• Publisher: Sheep Meadow Pr

Summary

Here are the letters between Nelly Sachs (1891 - 1970), recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature, and the great German-speaking poet Paul Celan (1920 - 1970). Their correspondence lasted from 1954 until Celan's death by suicide. Sachs died the day Celan was buried.

Author Biography

PAUL CELAN was born Paul Ancel of a Jewish family in Romania in 1920. In 1942 his parents were deported and died in an extermination camp. Celan escaped but was in a labour camp until 1944. In 1948 he settled in Paris, where he took up the study of German literature and became a lecturer at the Ecole Normale Superieur. Paris remained his home until his suicide by drowning in 1970.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Prose
Edgar Jene and the Dream about the Dream	p. 3
Backlight	p. 11
[Reply to a Questionnaire from the Flinker Bookstore, Paris, 1958]	p. 15
Conversation in the Mountains	p. 17
[Reply to a Questionnaire from the Flinker Bookstore, Paris, 1961]	p. 23
[Letter to Hans Bender]	p. 25
[Reply to a Poll by Der Spiegel]	p. 27
La poesie ne s'impose plus, elle s'expose	p. 29
Speeches
Speech on the Occasion of Receiving the Literature Prize of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen	p. 33
The Meridian	p. 37
[Address to the Hebrew Writers' Association]	p. 57
Introductory Notes to the Translations of Blok and Mandelstam	p. 61
Sources	p. 65
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