Category: Paul Celan

Kristallnacht

Tonight is the seventieth anniversary of Kristallnacht, the night of the first major Nazi pogrom also known as Reichspogromnacht. On that night 72 Jews were killed and some 25 to 30.000 were arrested and...

Toby Litt on Celan's Breathturn

Gratifying to read in the Guardian’s Observer‘s “That’s the best thing we’ve read all year” section the following entry: Toby Litt In February I finally got hold of Paul Celan’s Breathturn (Green Integer Press)...

Paul Celan's Birthday

Paul Celan would be 87 today, had he not opted out in 1970 at age 50. 1920-1970: one version of the short twentieth century for sure, the core is war & destruction of people(s)....