The son of germanspeaking jews, celan grew up speaking several languages, including romanian, russian, and french. A bilingual germanenglish edition, revised edition, translated by michael hamburger, persea books, 2002. The second home by christina clancy a surefooted ode to the strength of family, the depth of loss, and the power of forgiveness. In 1938 celan went to paris to study medicine, but returned to romania before the outbreak of world war ii. The classic translation, poems of paul celan is revised and expanded, featuring new poems and an essay by the translator. Paul celan selected poetry twentyeight poems in a new freely downloadable translation. Celans body was found in the seine river in late april 1970, he had committed suicide. The essential poet of the holocaust, paul celan was one of the greatest poets to ever write in german. He became one of the major germanlanguage poets of the postworld war ii era. Paul celan was born paul antschel in czernovitz, romania, to a germanspeaking jewish family. He was born as paul antschel to a jewish family in cernau. Paul antschel, who wrote under the pseudonym paul celan, was born in czernovitz, in romania, on november 23, 1920. Paul celan was a romanianborn germanlanguage poet and translator. Along with anne franks diary and elie wiesels night, celans poems are a small handful of essential firstaccount works from the holocaust, or shoah.
List of books and articles about paul celan online research. Buy poems of paul celan third by paul celan, michael hamburger isbn. Selected poems and prose of paul celan the new york times. Selected poems and prose of paul celan paul celan, author, john felstiner, translator w. Paul celans most popular book is poems of paul celan. Paul celans experiences as a germanromanian jew during world war ii form the basis for his spare, devastating poems. Poems of paul celan in english and german paul celan translated with an introduction by michael hamburger published by persea books, new york 1995. It is the foremost englishlanguage edition of the great poet. Paul celan was a poet and translator born in the east european province of bukovina. In the writing of paul celan even we readers who can hear poe. Celans early poems are deeply felt and profoundly lyrical. Although he spent his early years in romania and his later.
Trust the tearstain, he admonishes us in the last poem in the book. Buy the selected poems and prose of paul celan reprint by paul celan, john felstiner isbn. Selected poems by paul celan paperback, 1972 for sale. This is underlined in wolfsbohne lupin, a poem in which paul celan addresses his mother. Paul celan author of poems of paul celan goodreads. Paul celan has 181 books on goodreads with 184 ratings. Soon after his parents, germanspeaking jews, had perished at the hands of the nazis, celan wrote the poem todesfuge deathfugue, which depicted life in a german concentration camp. Pdf download poems of paul celan free unquote books. Poems of paul celan book also available for read online, mobi, docx and mobile and kindle reading.
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