Paul Celan : Poet, Survivor, Jew

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ISBN: 9780300089226 | 0300089228
Cover: Trade Paper
Copyright: 2/8/2001

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This book is the first critical biography of Paul Celan, a German-speaking East European Jew who was Europe's most compelling postwar poet. It tells the story of Celan's life, offers new translations of his poems, and illuminates the connection between Celan's lived experience and his poetry.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One Stricken

(108)

Loss and the Mother Tongue (1920-43)

(19)

Childhood, war, Nazi occupation, forced labor, parents' deportation, ``Winter,'' ``Black Flakes''

A Fugue after Auschwitz (1944-45)

(20)

Return to Czernowitz, Soviet occupation, ``Nearness of Graves,''``Russian Spring,'' ``Deathfugue''

Song in the Wilderness (1945-48)

(15)

Emigration to Bucharest, ``A Song in the Wilderness,``Flight to Vienna, ``Corona,'' Der Sand aus den Urnen

``German'' Author in Exile (1948-53)

(20)

Settling in Paris, ``In Egypt,'' ``Count up the almonds,''Group 47, marriage, Mohn und Gedachtnis, Apollinaire and Moore translantions, ``In Front of a Candle,'' ``Remembrance''

Saying No To Say Yes (1953-54)

(15)

``Speak You Too,'' ``Shibboleth,''Von Schwelle zu Schwelle, ``The Vintagers''

Words That Will Not Heal (1954-57)

(17)

Night and Fog and Picasso translations, ``Voices,'' ``Tenebrae,'' ``Flower,'' ``Speech-Grille''

Part Two Seeking

109

(104)

Only Language through Memory (1958)

111

(15)

Bremen speech, ``Stretto''

The Other Voice Your Own (1958-59)

126

(21)

Esenin, Blok, Mandelshtam, Apollinaire, Marvell, Valery translations, Sprachgitter, ``Conversation in the Mountains''

With and Against the Pain (1959-60)

147

(23)

``There was earth inside them,'' Goll plagiarism campaign, Nelly Sachs, ``Zurich, at the Stork,'' Martin Buber, ``The Sluice,'' Meridian speech, ``Psalm''

Wrestling with the Angles (1961)

170

(15)

``Tubingen, January'' and Holderlin, ``A Rogues' and Swindlers' Ditty,'' ``Radix, Matrix,'' ``Benedicta,'' ``Mandorla,'' Kafka and the golem

Speaking East (1962)

185

(15)

``In One,'' ``Tabernacle Window,'' ``Everything is different,'' All poets are Yids, ``In the air,'' Die Niemandsrose, Rilke

Translation Counterpoint (1961-63)

200

(13)

Dickinson, Shakespeare, Frost translations

Part Three Reality

213

(80)

Etching and Alchemy (1963-65)

215

(13)

``In rivers,'' ``Threadsuns,'' ``Bitten away,'' ``No more sand art,'' ``In Prague,'' Adorno and Auschwitz, Atemwende

Crossing into Hebrew (1965-67)

228

(16)

``Frankfurt, September,'' psychiatric clinics, Fadensonnen, Aschrei, Gershom Scholem, ``Near, in the aorta's arch,'' Six-Day War and ``Just Think''

Prophecy out of Exile (1967)

244

(9)

Heidegger and ``Todtnauberg,'' ``You be like you,'' Lichtzwang

An Embabeled Tongue (1968-69)

253

(11)

Rosa Luxemburg, May 1968 and Prague, Rembrandt, ``Almonding one, ''Schneepart

To Name Jerusalem (1969)

264

(16)

Israel, Tel Aviv speech, return to Paris, Jerusalem poems, ``The trumpet place,'' ``The poles,'' ``I drink wine,'' Zeitgehoft

A Question of Last Things (1970)

280

(13)

Stuttgart and Holderlin, Kafka, ``Vinegrowers,'' aftermath

Notes

293

(40)

Index

333

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Paul Celan : Poet, Survivor, Jew

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