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Paul Celan : selections / edited and with an introduction by Pierre Joris

By:

Celan, Paul

Contributor(s):

Joris, Pierre

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press , 2005Description: 230 p. : illus ; 22 cmISBN:

97808520241688

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Poetry

DDC classification:

831 CEL

LOC classification:

PT2605.E4 A2 2005

Summary: The best introduction to the work of Paul Celan, this anthology offers a broad collection of his writing in unsurpassed English translations along with a wealth of commentaries by major writers and philosophers. The present selection is based on Celan's own 1968 selected poems, though enlarged to include both earlier and later poems, as well as two prose works, The Meridian, Celan's core statement on poetics, and the narrative Conversation in the Mountains. This volume also includes letters to Celan's wife, the artist Gisèle Celan-Lestrange; to his friend Erich Einhorn; and to René Char and Jean-Paul Sartre--all appearing here for the first time in English.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	831 CEL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		002573

Includes bibliographical references p. 225 - 227

The best introduction to the work of Paul Celan, this anthology offers a broad collection of his writing in unsurpassed English translations along with a wealth of commentaries by major writers and philosophers. The present selection is based on Celan's own 1968 selected poems, though enlarged to include both earlier and later poems, as well as two prose works, The Meridian, Celan's core statement on poetics, and the narrative Conversation in the Mountains. This volume also includes letters to Celan's wife, the artist Gisèle Celan-Lestrange; to his friend Erich Einhorn; and to René Char and Jean-Paul Sartre--all appearing here for the first time in English.

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