The early poetry of Paul Celan
in the beginning was the word
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Author
Publication
1997 - Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Language
English
Word Count
57,000 words, Guess
Page Count
228 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL670312M
- ISBN-100807122092
- OCLC Control Number36755916
- OCLC Control Numberearlypoetryofpau00delc
- Library of Congress Control Number97016227
and 2 more
- LibraryThing4597119
- Goodreads214369
Classifications
- DDC831/.914
- LCCPT2605.E4 Z596 1997
Description
Arguably the greatest post-World War II German poet, Paul Celan (1920-1970) was a Holocaust survivor whose work is an anguished and poignant record of his struggle to meet the conflicting demands of remembrance and living in the present. In this remarkable study, Adrian Del Caro explores Celan's early work, examining the poet's relation to the Word of scripture and to "words" of speech. As Del Caro explains, Celan takes the entire Judeo-Christian tradition to task for its failure during the Holocaust. Filled with images and metaphors from the death camps and from Celan's own experience of forced labor, his first two major volumes of poetry, Poppy and Memory (1952) and From Threshold to Threshold (1954), serve as testimony that the Holocaust cannot and must not be forgotten, and that all thought and hence all language has been changed by this event.
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