Celan studies / Peter Szondi ; translated by Susan Bernofsky with Harvey Mendelsohn ; edited by Jean Bollack ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Szondi, Peter.

Series:

Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)

Meridian

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Celan, Paul--Criticism and interpretation.

Celan, Paul.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xv, 127 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.

Summary:

Peter Szondi's Celan Studies marked the beginning of critical work on Paul Celan, the most important German poet of the second half of the twentieth century. The book's three studies each concentrate on one of Celan's poems. "The Poetry of Constancy: Paul Celan's Translation of Shakespeare's Sonnet 105" investigates a historical turn from a poetry that claims to present its object to a poetry that only promises to do so. "Reading 'Engfuhrung"' follows the movement of poetic language into territory undisclosed to epistemic reason. "Eden" addresses "Du liegst, " a poem on the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht; Szondi actually was with Celan when the poem was written. it anlayzes the relation between the historical facts to which a poem refers and its composition. The book contains, as appendixes, Szondi's notes for three more projected studies of Celan poems, left unwritten at the time of his death in 1971.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0804744017

0804744025

OCLC:

50155760