Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel

by Yōko Tawada

Patrik, who sometimes calls himself "the patient," is a literary researcher living in present-day Berlin. The city is just coming back to life after lockdown, and his beloved opera houses are open again, but Patrik cannot leave the house and hardly manages to get out of bed. When he shaves his head, his girlfriend scolds him, "What have you done to your head? I don't want to be with a prisoner from a concentration camp " He is supposed to give...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811234878
• ISBN13: 9780811234870
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 144 Pages