Paul Celan Today: A Companion

Published by De Gruyter 2021

Paul Celan Today

A Companion

Edited by: Michael Eskin , Karen Leeder and Marko Pajević

Volume 10 in the series Companions to Contemporary German Culture

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110658330

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About this book

Marking Paul Celan's 100th birthday and the 50th anniversary of his death, this volume endeavours to answer the following question: why does Celan still matter today – more than ever perhaps? And why should he continue to matter tomorrow? In other words, the volume explores and assesses the enduring significance of Celan's life and œuvre in and for the 21st century. Boasting cutting-edge research by international scholars together with original contributions by contemporary artists and writers, this book attests to, on the one hand, the extent to which large swathes of contemporary philosophy, poetics, literary scholarship, and aesthetics have been indebted to Celan's legacy and are simply unthinkable without it, and, on the other hand, to the malleability, adaptability, breadth and depth of Celan's poetics, which, like the music of The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, or Queen, is reborn and rediscovered with every new generation.

5 original contributions by writers and artists
16 cutting-edge studies on topics related to Celan’s literary environment, on issues of translation and multilingualism, of philosophy, politics and the arts
The relevance of Celan today and tomorrow

Author / Editor information

Marko Pajevic, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia; Michael Eskin, Upper West Side Philosophers, Inc.; Karen Leeder, New College, Oxford, UK.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
A Note on Translations Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Michael Eskin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Paul Celan’s Bukovina-Meridians Amy-Diana Colin and Andrei Corbea-Hoisie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
A ‘Poet in Destitute Times’. Paul Celan and the West German Literary Scene of the 1950s and 1960s Helmut Böttiger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Translating the Night. On Paul Celan and Fragment 178 of René Char’s Feuillets d’Hypnos Thomas C. Connolly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Translating in a ‘Wholly Other’ German. ‘Ricercar’ Camilla Miglio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Celan in English Charlie Louth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
‘Ruf’s, das Schibboleth, hinaus - in die Fremde der Heimat’. gebietscelan in the Poetry of José F. A. Oliver Áine McMurty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Philosophical readings of Paul Celan in France. Three Steps Denis Thouard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Language, Barred. Paul Celan’s Poetological Reduction Kristina Mendicino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Breath Turn, Linguistic Turn, Political Activism. Reading Celan’s Poems of 1967 Christine Ivanovic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Beyond Poetry. Celan’s Red Folder, May 1968 Chiara Caradonna Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Paul Celan’s Successors. From Reverence to Transduction Sue Vice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
‘almost - you would - have lived’. Reading Paul Celan in Colombia Cherilyn Elston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Between Poetry and Prayer. A Kaddish for Paul Celan Eric Kligerman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Celan’s Correspondence and Correspondence with Celan. Transfer Processes of Life Marko Pajević Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
Four Images Anselm Kiefer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
Memorial Peter Waterhouse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Breath Edmund de Waal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
‘Huhediblu’ Ulrike Draesner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
We Are All Migrants of Language. A Conversation Michael Eskin and Durs Grünbein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
Paul Celan. A Select Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Students and Scholars of Literary Studies; German Studies; Translation Studies; Philosophy
Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 373
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 15
Keywords: Paul Celan; Literature and Philosophy; Literature and Politics; Literature and the Arts; Poetry

eBook

Published: August 23, 2021
ISBN: 9783110658330

Paperback

Published: August 23, 2021
ISBN: 9783110653403