{"id":6360,"date":"2011-05-07T06:56:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T10:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=6360"},"modified":"2011-05-07T06:56:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-07T10:56:29","slug":"paul-celan-on-jacket2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/paul-celan-on-jacket2\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Celan on Jacket2"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Paul Celan<\/h1>\n<div id=\"content-area\">\n<div id=\"node-5474\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/jacket2.org\/commentary\/paul-celans-meridian-final-version%E2%80%94drafts%E2%80%94materials\">Paul Celan&#8217;s &#8220;The Meridian: Final Version\u2014Drafts\u2014Materials&#8221;<\/a><\/h3>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h4>tr. Pierre Joris, ed. Edited by Bernhard B\u00f6schenstein and Heino Schmull<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/jacket2.org\/commentary\/charles-bernstein\">CHARLES BERNSTEIN<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/jacket2.org\/sites\/jacket2.org\/files\/imagecache\/wide_main_column\/Celan-Meridian_cover.jpg\" alt=\"Celan Meridian Cover\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Meridian speech is one of Paul Celan&#8217;s key works. This meticulous, fascinating, and, finally, compelling edition begins by unlocking what seems to be the work&#8217;s multifoliate nature. Ultimately, though, and with the help of Pierre Joris&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sup.org\/book.cgi?id=1236\">Stanford University Press<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>April 30, 2011<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"node-425\">\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/jacket2.org\/commentary\/celan-primer-pdf\">Celan primer (PDF)<\/a><\/h2>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/jacket2.org\/content\/alfilreis\">AL FILREIS<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/jacket2.org\/sites\/jacket2.org\/files\/imagecache\/wide_main_column\/paul%20celan.jpg\" alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve prepared a document that might nicely serve as a primer to Paul Celan&#8217;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&#8217; excellent introductory profile to his\u00a0<em>Paul Celan: Selections<\/em>, followed by the texts of just two early poems.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/media.sas.upenn.edu\/afilreis\/Celan-Paul-readings-1.pdf\">Here<\/a> is that document (PDF).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Celan Paul Celan&#8217;s &#8220;The Meridian: Final Version\u2014Drafts\u2014Materials&#8221; tr. Pierre Joris, ed. Edited by Bernhard B\u00f6schenstein and Heino Schmull CHARLES BERNSTEIN The Meridian speech is one of Paul Celan&#8217;s key works. This meticulous, fascinating,&#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":[103],"tags":[1730],"class_list":["post-6360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation","tag-paul-celan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6360","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=6360"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6364,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6360\/revisions\/6364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}