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Paul Celan
Paul Celan’s “The Meridian: Final Version—Drafts—Materials”
tr. Pierre Joris, ed. Edited by Bernhard Böschenstein and Heino Schmull
The Meridian speech is one of Paul Celan’s key works. This meticulous, fascinating, and, finally, compelling edition begins by unlocking what seems to be the work’s multifoliate nature. Ultimately, though, and with the help of Pierre Joris’s eloquent translation, we discover that that under the many surfaces of this magisterial essay is an abyss of poetic thinking struggling to emerge into the light of our encounter.
Celan primer (PDF)
I’ve prepared a document that might nicely serve as a primer to Paul Celan’s wartime experience and early poems. It includes a page-long summary of his life c. 1941-45 and then five pages from Pierre Joris’ excellent introductory profile to his Paul Celan: Selections, followed by the texts of just two early poems. Here is that document (PDF).
Very moving. The depth and breadth of your work beggars me.
I have just linked yesterday to Nomadics, there were an amount
of hits and now this has come out !
I have an external link to ‘Translations at the Mountain of Death’ which
enjoys regular hits.
I hope to create a short introductory and external link
to this PDF at some stage, as there are many interested
Celan readers, incl. a friend of mine who is accessing
BCN documents.
rgds,
C Murray