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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 Gisèle Celan-Lestrange; to his friend Erich Einhorn; and to René Char and Jean-Paul Sartre—all appearing here for the first time in English.
Price: $34.95
Pages: 242
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: Poets for the Millennium
Publication Date:
14 March 2005
ISBN: 9780520937925
Format: eBook
Introduction: "Polysemy without mask"
Key to Translators
I. POEMS
from Romanian Prose Poems (c. 1947)
from Mohn und Gedächtnis/Poppy and Memory (1952)
from Von Schwelle zu Schwelle/From Threshold to Threshold (1955)
from Sprachgitter/Speech-Grille (1959)
from Die Niemandsrose/The Noonesrose (1963)
from Atemwende/Breathturn (1967)
from Fadensonnen/Threadsuns (1968)
from Lichtzwang/Lightduress (1970)
from Schneepart/Snowpart (1971)
from Zeitgehöft/Timehalo (1976)
II. PROSES
Conversation in the Mountains (1959)
The Meridian (1960)
III. DOCUMENTS
from the Correspondence
Letter #1: To Gisèle Celan-Lestrange (1952)
Letter #2: To Gisèle Celan-Lestrange (1952)
Letter #3: To René Char (unsent) (1962)
Letter #4: To Erich Einhorn (1962)
Letter #5: To Jean-Paul Sartre (unsent) (1962)
Letter #6: To Erich Einhorn (1962)
Letter #7: To Gisèle Celan-Lestrange (1965)
Letter #8: To Eric Celan (1968)
Letter #9: From Gisèle Celan-Lestrange to Paul (1969)
Letter #10: To Gisèle Celan-Lestrange (1970)
Das Stundenglass, tief (facsimile)
Uber dich hinaus (facsimile)
Es wird etwas sein, später (facsimile)
IV. ON PAUL CELAN
Paul Celan and Language—Jacques Derrida
Encounters with Paul Celan—E.M. Cioran
For Paul Celan—Andrea Zanzotto
On Paul Celan in Neuchâtel—Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The Memory of Words—Edmond Jabès
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments of Permissions
Key to Translators
I. POEMS
from Romanian Prose Poems (c. 1947)
from Mohn und Gedächtnis/Poppy and Memory (1952)
from Von Schwelle zu Schwelle/From Threshold to Threshold (1955)
from Sprachgitter/Speech-Grille (1959)
from Die Niemandsrose/The Noonesrose (1963)
from Atemwende/Breathturn (1967)
from Fadensonnen/Threadsuns (1968)
from Lichtzwang/Lightduress (1970)
from Schneepart/Snowpart (1971)
from Zeitgehöft/Timehalo (1976)
II. PROSES
Conversation in the Mountains (1959)
The Meridian (1960)
III. DOCUMENTS
from the Correspondence
Letter #1: To Gisèle Celan-Lestrange (1952)
Letter #2: To Gisèle Celan-Lestrange (1952)
Letter #3: To René Char (unsent) (1962)
Letter #4: To Erich Einhorn (1962)
Letter #5: To Jean-Paul Sartre (unsent) (1962)
Letter #6: To Erich Einhorn (1962)
Letter #7: To Gisèle Celan-Lestrange (1965)
Letter #8: To Eric Celan (1968)
Letter #9: From Gisèle Celan-Lestrange to Paul (1969)
Letter #10: To Gisèle Celan-Lestrange (1970)
Das Stundenglass, tief (facsimile)
Uber dich hinaus (facsimile)
Es wird etwas sein, später (facsimile)
IV. ON PAUL CELAN
Paul Celan and Language—Jacques Derrida
Encounters with Paul Celan—E.M. Cioran
For Paul Celan—Andrea Zanzotto
On Paul Celan in Neuchâtel—Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The Memory of Words—Edmond Jabès
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments of Permissions