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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,
“... could and could not be saved from its historical contamination.In his memoir the French poet Jean Daive reports an intriguing conversation:Paul Celan asks me: – Have you thought of writing in another language? – No. Have you? – Yes, sometimes, in French … But it’s not ... ”
