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Celan Biography
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Book information
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Synopsis
Celan: I am at a different level of time and space than my readers, they can only interpret me from a distance, they can't grasp me, they just hold the fence between us.
Paul Zelland, a post-World War II Influential German-speaking poet, was born in 1920 to a Jewish family in Chernowice, whose parents died in Nazi concentration camps in 1943, and who himself went into exile in 1944. Celan traveled to various cities and eventually settled in Paris. He spent the rest of his life writing in the shadow of history and memory. One night in April 1970, Celan committed suicide by throwing himself into the Seine in Paris.
Celan's experiences of pain have always accompanied him, how can these experiences be found in his poetry? Should we treat Celan's poetry differently from his life? Professor Wolfgang Emerich, an expert in Celan studies, with his solid academic research, accurate narrative, and sincere emotion, tells the story of Celan's ups and downs, and through the ingenious weaving of Celan's life experience, creative process, emotional life, and literary events, he truly shows Celan's personal history of mourning and trauma in the twentieth century.
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Book catalog
Introduction
“...... In honor of his info code"
Time and space – the poetic and the poetic
Teenage years
Chapter One: Chernovits' Boyhood
Bukovina 1920-1940
Chapter Two: The Language of the Mother—The Language of the Murderer
1941— 1945
Chapter Three: From Ancher to Celan
Bucharest 1945-1947
Chapter Four: "We Love Each Other Like Poppies and Memories"
Vienna 1947-1948
Paris I.
Chapter Five: From "Poetry of Beauty" to "Grey Language"
Paris 1948—1958
Chapter Six: "I Am the One Who Doesn't Exist"
German, Jewish, Russian 1958-1963
Paris II.
Chapter VII "... A breath crystal, / your irrefutable / testimony"
1963— 1967
Chapter VIII "... Say, Jerusalem it's in"
Paris May 1968 – Israel October 1969
Chapter IX "... I must be falling into my abyss day by day."
End of 1969- Spring 1970
Celan Chronology
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