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Paul Celan


Born
in Cernăuţi, Kingdom of Romania
November 23, 1920

Died
April 20, 1970

Genre
Poetry


Poet, translator, essayist, and lecturer, influenced by French Surrealism and Symbolism. Celan was born in Cernăuţi, at the time Romania, now Ukraine, he lived in France, and wrote in German. His parents were killed in the Holocaust; the author himself escaped death by working in a Nazi labor camp. "Death is a Master from Germany", Celan's most quoted words, translated into English in different ways, are from the poem 'Todesfuge' (Death Fugue). Celan's body was found in the Seine river in late April 1970, he had committed suicide. ...more

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Average rating: 4.28 · 10,733 ratings · 961 reviews · 222 distinct works • Similar authors
Poems of Paul Celan
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4.32 avg rating — 3,994 ratings — published 1970 — 62 editions
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Selected Poems and Prose of...
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Breathturn
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4.40 avg rating — 457 ratings — published 1965 — 29 editions
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Mohn und Gedächtnis
4.16 avg rating — 452 ratings — published 1950
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Threadsuns
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4.46 avg rating — 291 ratings — published 1968 — 18 editions
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Die Gedichte.
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4.54 avg rating — 250 ratings — published 2003 — 14 editions
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Breathturn into Timestead: ...
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Paul Celan: Selections
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4.50 avg rating — 250 ratings — published 2005 — 9 editions
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Di soglia in soglia
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Collected Prose
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4.03 avg rating — 215 ratings — published 1983 — 29 editions
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“Poetry is a sort of homecoming.”
― Paul Celan
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“who
is invisible enough
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― Paul Celan
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“Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.”
― Paul Celan
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