{"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\u2019s: \u201cIn the night from Monday to Tuesday, 19 to 20 April, he left his apartment, never to return\u2026 \u201d (Bachmann-Celan Correspondence, p. 197).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This makes today the fortieth anniversary of Paul Celan\u2019s 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\u2019s: \u201cIn 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}]}}