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Either shakespeare is brilliantly translated by celan, or celan is brilliantly creating his own unique poems. Paul celan was born paul antschel in czernovitz, romania, to a germanspeaking jewish family. Czernowitz, in the then kingdom of romania now chernivtsi, ukraine, and adopted the pseudonym paul celan. The son of germanspeaking jews, celan grew up speaking several languages, including romanian, russian, and french. A list of poems by paul celan paul antschel, who wrote under the pseudonym paul celan, was born in czernovitz, in romania, on november 23, 1920. Synopsis paul celan was born in bukovina in 1920, and lost his parents, germanspeaking jews, at the hands of the nazis. The classic translation, poems of paul celan is revised and expanded, featuring new poems and an essay by the translator. The peerless translations of this haunted and haunting holocaust poet, including ten new poems and an illuminating essay by the translator. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read paul celan.

Michael dirda, washington post book world the book is at once a biography of celan, a study of his poems, and an account of the authors struggle with translation. Ingeborg bachmann is the author of darkness spoken. Paul celan 19201970 is often acknowledged to be a difficult poet, both in translation and in his native german. Celan s poems embody a conviction that the truth of what has been broken and torn must be told with a jagged grace. Born into a jewish family in a german enclave of romania, his life and work were. Czernowitz, in the then kingdom of romania now chernivtsy, ukraine, and adopted the pseudonym paul celan. He became one of the major germanlanguage poets of the postworld war ii era. Paul celan s most popular book is poems of paul celan. He was born as paul antschel into a jewish family in romania, and changed his name to paul celan where celan in romanian would be pronounced chelan, and was derived from ancel.

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Robert pinsky, the new republic poems of paul celan is a memorable volume and will influence our moral outlook and the practice of poetry for a long time to come. Paul celan was a german language poet and translator. No twentiethcentury poet pierces the heart of language with such an exquisite blade as paul celan. The peerless translations of this haunted and haunting holocaust poet, including ten new poems and an. Paul celan was born into a germanspeaking jewish family in romania. Undoing facile assumptions about celan, corona charts a more idiosyncratic and personal path through celan s large oeuvre, choosing 103 poems from among the more than 900 celan. Project muse poetics of silence in the postholocaust.

Paul antschel was born in 1920 in czernovitz, a small romanian town now part of. It is the foremost englishlanguage edition of the great poet. He became one of the major germanlanguage poets of the post. His works are collected in english in poems of paul celan. In 1938 celan went to paris to study medicine, but returned to romania before the outbreak of world war ii. Austrian writer ingeborg bachmann 192673 is recognized as one of postworld war ii german literatures most important novelists, poets, and playwrights. The son of germanspeaking jews, celan grew up speaking several languages, including. He was born as paul antschel to a jewish family in chernivtsy, ukraine, and adopted the pseudonym paul celan. He was born as paul antschel to a jewish family in cernau. But my paper aims at not merely locating celan as a germanlanguage poet of the postsecond world war period, but also as a jew, and a survivor of the holocaust the nazi genocidal machinery which claimed millions of lives during the second world war 19391945. His father, leo antschel, was a zionist and his mother, fritzi, was a keen reader of german literature. The collected poems of ingeborg bachmann, malina,and. The first anvil edition of this book was awarded the ecs inaugural european translation prize in 1990.

Paul celans literary reputation rests exclusively on his poetry. Studies in his early poetry scrutinizes the influences detectable in the poems written during 193848. Undoing facile assumptions about celan, corona charts a more idiosyncratic and personal path through celans large oeuvre, choosing 103 poems from among the more than 900 celan. This new edition adds ten more poems and a significant.

During the war celan worked in a forced labor camp for 18 months. Celan was a concentration camp survivor, and his parents perished at the hands of the nazis. Pdf selected poems and prose of paul celan download full. Paul celan selected poetry twentyeight poems in a new freely downloadable translation. Poems of paul celan concludes with the compelling essay, on translating celan, in which hamburger details his relationship with celans work and with celan himself. Soon after his parents, germanspeaking jews, had perished at the hands of the nazis, celan wrote the poem todesfuge deathfugue, which depicted life in a german concentration camp.

Selected poems celan paul one of the major twentiethcentury european poets, paul celan wrote poetry of exceptional linguistic brilliance and intensity drawn from his experiences, particularly of the war years and the loss of his parents in the death camps. Paul celan translating others world literature today. When it comes wholly to paul celan, what he knows and says leaves us stirring. Paul celan was one of the great poets of the twentieth century. In 1952, celans writing began to gain recognition when he read his poetry on his first reading trip to germany where he was invited to read at the. Paul antschel, who wrote under the pseudonym paul celan, was born in czernovitz, in romania, on november 23, 1920. It tells the story of celans life, offers new translations of his poems, and illuminates the connection between celans lived experience and his poetry. Paul celan was a poet and translator born in the east european province of bukovina. Selected poems and prose of paul celan paul celan, author, john felstiner, translator w.

Paul celan is one the twentieth centurys most essential poets, and twentytwo years after its publication, poems of paul celan continues to be the single truest access for englishspeakers to this poets work. Pdf download selected poems and prose of paul celan. Michael hamburger this is a new, revised edition of an anvil classic. Paul celan s poetry is a beacon, from this point of view. Paul celan has 178 books on goodreads with 18124 ratings. Celan was preoccupied by the ways in which language abandoned people, and saved them. Born november 23, 1920 in czernovitz, romania died may 1, 1970 in paris france ethnicity jewish, nationality romanian residence paris, france, bucharest, hungary, vienna, austria other occupations medical student, labor camp worker, psychiatric field surgeon, translator. Paul celan 192070 is one of the bestknown german poets of the holocaust. Although he spent his early years in romania and his later years in france, celan wrote in german and is widely considered the greatest postwar poet in europe. Please note david youngs recent translations of paul celan can be found in poetry international 14.

Through the essay, and of course through the poems, this book offers readers an immersion into the troubled genius of this crucial poet. Paul celan, arguably the mid20th centurys most important germanlanguage poet, is commonly pigeonholed as a poet of the holocausta term, however, he never used. Michael dirdas, washington post book world the book is at once a biography of celan, a study of his poems, and an account of the authors struggle with translation. Theres nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, paul celan once remarked, not even when he is a jew and the language of his. Celan continued writing in german to purge and remake the language the deathbringing speech. Paul celan was famous for being both a poet and translator, born in romania, on november 23, 1920. A bilingual germanenglish edition and selected poems and prose of paul celan, among other books. Poet, survivor, jew john felstiner teaches us how to pay better attention to one of the most serious and rewarding poets of our time. Selected poems and prose of paul celan paul celan john.