false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172212304m/150266.jpg 150266 2 The most wide-ranging volume of the work of Europe's leading postwar poet. Paul Celan was born in 1920 in the East European province of Bukovina. Soon after his parents, German-speaking Jews, had perished at the hands of the Nazis, Celan wrote "Todesfuge" ("Deathfugue"), the most compelling poem to emerge from the Holocaust. Self-exiled in Paris, for twenty-five years Celan continued writing in his German mother tongue, although it had "passed through the thousand darknesses of deathbringing speech." His writing purges and remakes that language, often achieving a hope-struck radiance never before seen in modern poetry. But in 1970, his psychic wounds unhealed, Celan drowned himself in the Seine. This landmark volume includes youthful lyrics, unpublished poems, and prose. All poems appear in the original and in translation on facing pages. John Felstiner's translations stem from a twenty-year immersion in Celan's life and work. John Bayley wrote in the <I>New York Review of Books</I>, "Felstiner translates ... brilliantly." 145032 12 2001 Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan total:159|5:106|4:39|3:12|2:2|1:0| 159 726 215 18 3 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 10 05:49:43 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 10 05:50:19 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Nov 01 19:54:56 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 01 20:28:06 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat May 09 04:05:27 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 02:24:02 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Jul 03 23:44:40 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 11:26:20 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Apr 24 09:01:59 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 09:02:48 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Jan 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 18:28:55 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 05:07:06 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Wed Dec 31 09:30:45 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 09:34:00 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Sat Aug 25 18:51:08 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 25 18:53:26 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Nov 28 09:48:31 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 28 09:49:35 -0800 2007 4 0 false false Wed Feb 27 16:28:50 -0800 2008 Wed Apr 02 08:53:34 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sun Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Feb 27 06:08:54 -0800 2009 Wed Jul 08 10:02:42 -0700 2009
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