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Michael Wood: On Paul Celan, 29 July 2021
Under the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan
by Jean Daive, translated by Rosmarie Waldrop.
City Lights, 186 pp., £11.99, November 2020,978 0 87286 808 3 Show More
by Jean Daive, translated by Rosmarie Waldrop.
City Lights, 186 pp., £11.99, November 2020,
Microliths They Are, Little Stones: Posthumous Prose
by Paul Celan, translated by Pierre Joris.
Contra Mundum, 293 pp., £20, October 2020,978 1 940625 36 2 Show More
by Paul Celan, translated by Pierre Joris.
Contra Mundum, 293 pp., £20, October 2020,
Memory Rose into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry
by Paul Celan, translated by Pierre Joris.
Farrar, Straus, 549 pp., £32, November 2020,978 0 374 29837 1 Show More
by Paul Celan, translated by Pierre Joris.
Farrar, Straus, 549 pp., £32, November 2020,
“... version, above, the camp inmates call the milk ‘you’ throughout. In other translations (by John Felstiner and Michael Hamburger, for example) and in the German text, they start by calling the milk ‘it’ and then move to ‘you’. I like the (incorrect) intimacy from the start, and confess that I had to look at several editions to find out what is ... ”