Celan, Paul

Poems of Paul Celan by Paul Celan ( Book )
24 editions published between 1988 and 2007 in English and German and held by 824 libraries worldwide
This is a new, revised edition of an Anvil Classic. Paul Celan was one of the great poets of the twentieth century. Born into a Jewish family in a German enclave of Romania, his life and work were indelibly marked by the Holocaust: his parents perished in a camp, he was lucky to survive. The Jewish experience and the force of history stretched language, and Celan himself, beyond breaking point. Celan committed suicide in Paris in 1970, but not before he had remade and reclaimed German as a language fit for poets. Celan spoke of a language 'north of the future' and described his poems as messages in bottles that might never be received.

Breathturn by Paul Celan ( Book )
76 editions published between 1967 and 2007 in 5 languages and held by 732 libraries worldwide

Paul Celan : selections by Paul Celan ( Book )
41 editions published between 1958 and 2009 in 10 languages and held by 668 libraries worldwide

Selected poems and prose of Paul Celan by Paul Celan ( Book )
7 editions published between 2000 and 2002 in English and held by 653 libraries worldwide
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" ("Death-fugue"), the most compelling poem to emerge from the Holocaust. Self-exited 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 This landmark volume includes youthful lyrics, unpublished poems, and prose.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 New York Review of Books. "Felstiner translates. . . brilliantly".

Threadsuns by Paul Celan ( Book )
67 editions published between 1968 and 2006 in 6 languages and held by 618 libraries worldwide
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Schneepart by Paul Celan ( Book )
51 editions published between 1971 and 2007 in 4 languages and held by 504 libraries worldwide

Collected prose by Paul Celan ( Book )
27 editions published between 1986 and 2003 in English and German and held by 504 libraries worldwide

Glottal stop : 101 poems by Paul Celan ( Book )
6 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 471 libraries worldwide

Die Niemandsrose by Paul Celan ( Book )
90 editions published between 1963 and 2007 in 10 languages and held by 469 libraries worldwide
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Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs : correspondence by Paul Celan ( Book )
22 editions published between 1993 and 1996 in German and English and held by 447 libraries worldwide
Correspondence between the two twentieth-century German poets.