{"id":3509,"date":"2010-04-20T05:32:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T10:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=3509"},"modified":"2010-04-20T05:32:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T10:32:15","slug":"40-years-ago-paul-celan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/40-years-ago-paul-celan\/","title":{"rendered":"40 Years Ago: Paul Celan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_3524\" style=\"width: 386px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3524\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3524 lazyload\" title=\"Grave-Paul-Celan\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Grave-Paul-Celan-262x350.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"501\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 376px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 376\/501;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grave of Paul Celan (1920 - 1970) at the cemetery Thiais, near Paris, France.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In late spring 1970, Gis\u00e8le Celan-Lestrange, estranged wife of the poet Paul Celan, wrote to the Austrian poet Ingeborg Bachmann, an early love and life-long friend of the poet&#8217;s: &#8220;In the night from Monday to Tuesday, 19 to 20 April, he left his apartment, never to return&#8230; &#8221; (Bachmann-Celan Correspondence, p. 197).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This makes today the fortieth anniversary of Paul Celan&#8217;s death. He left the (very noisy, as he had complained to friends) apartment on avenue Emile Zola, walked to the Pont Mirabeau (the name of a bridge across the Seine near by his flat, but of course also the title of a famous Apollinaire poem) and went into the water. Below, my translation of the last poem Paul Celan wrote, starting it around April first and finishing it on the 13th.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Vinegrowers<\/strong> dig up<br \/>\nthe darkhoured watch,<br \/>\ndepth for depth,<\/p>\n<p>you read,<\/p>\n<p>the invisible<br \/>\none commands the wind<br \/>\nto stay in bounds,<\/p>\n<p>you read,<\/p>\n<p>the Open Ones carry<br \/>\nthe stone behind the eye,<br \/>\nit recognizes you,<\/p>\n<p>on the Sabbath.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In late spring 1970, Gis\u00e8le Celan-Lestrange, estranged wife of the poet Paul Celan, wrote to the Austrian poet Ingeborg Bachmann, an early love and life-long friend of the poet&#8217;s: &#8220;In the night from Monday&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,83,91,103,1],"tags":[1730],"class_list":["post-3509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","category-paul-celan","category-poetry","category-translation","category-uncategorized","tag-paul-celan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}