Binding: Paperback
Description: Memory Rose into Threshold Speech gathers the poet Paul Celan's first four books written between 1952 and 1963, which established his reputation as a major post - World War II German - language poet. Celan a Bukovinian Jew who lived through the Holocaust created work that displays both great lyric power and an uncanny ability to pinpoint totalitarian cultural and political tendencies. His quest however is not only reflective: there is in Celan's writing a profound need and desire to create a new inhabitable world and a new language for it. In Memory Rose into Threshold Speech Celan's reader witnesses his poetry which starts lush with surrealistic imagery become gradually pared down; its syntax tightens and his trademark neologisms and word formations increase toward a polysemic language of great accuracy that tries in the poet's own words "to measure the area of the given and the possible." Translated by the prize - winning poet and translator Pierre Joris this bilingual edition follows the 2014 publication of Breathturn into Timestead Celan's collected later poetry. All nine volumes of Celan's poetry are now available in Joris's carefully crafted translations accompanied here by a new introduction as well as extensive commentary by Joris and Barbara Wiedemann. The four volumes in this edition show the flowering of one of the major literary figures of the last century. This volume collects Celan's first four books: Mohn und Ged chtnis (Poppy and Memory) Von Schwelle zu Schwelle (Threshold to Threshold) Sprachgitter (Speechgrille) and Die Niemandsrose (No Ones Rose).
Title: Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech The Collected Earlier Poetry: A Bilingual Edition
Author(s): Celan Paul
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780374603236
Pages: 592 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/15/2022