Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan

by Paul Celan

Book Overview

Paul Celan was born in 1920 in the East European province of Bukovina. Soon after his parents, German-speaking Jews, had perished at the hands of the Nazis, Celan wrote "Todesfuge" ("Deathfugue"), the most compelling poem to emerge from the Holocaust. Self-exiled in Paris, for twenty-five years Celan continued writing in his German mother tongue, although it had "passed through the thousand darknesses of deathbringing speech." His writing purges...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393322246
• ISBN13: 9780393322248
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 466 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"