Selected Prose of Paul Celan

by Celan,Paul

• ISBN13: 9780415967235
• ISBN10: 0415967236
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-03-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Paul Celan lived through some of the worst episodes of modern history, losing his parents at the hands of the German army and surviving a period in a labor camp. The prose writings of this important poet are sparse, but when collected relate a superior artistic consciousness, and a deeply felt poetic response to the horrors of the recent past.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Prose
Edgar Jene and the Dream about the Dream	3	(8)
Backlight	11	(4)
[Reply to a Questionnaire from the Flinker Bookstore, Paris, 1958]	15	(2)
Conversation in the Mountains	17	(6)
[Reply to a Questionnaire from the Flinker Bookstore, Paris, 1961]	23	(2)
[Letter to Hans Bender]	25	(2)
[Reply to a Poll by Der Spiegel]	27	(2)
La poesie ne s'impose plus, elle s'expose	29	(4)
Speeches
Speech on the Occasion of Receiving the Literature Prize of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen	33	(4)
The Meridian	37	(20)
[Address to the Hebrew Writers' Association]	57	(4)
Appendices
Introductory Notes to the Translations of Block and Mandelstam	61	(4)
Sources	65