Collected Prose (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Paul Antschel
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Letters, speeches, interviews, and other prose
- Genres: Nonfiction, Letters
- Subjects: Language or languages, Suicide, Murder or homicide, Twentieth century, Victims, Jews or Jewish life, Lectures or lecturing, Nazism or Nazis, Humanism, Israel or Israelis, Concentration camps
From the time of his early successes in the 1950’s when Paul Celan received several important German literary prizes to the publication of his later work, most of it published posthumously in the early 1970’s, this Jewish Romanian poet has steadily gained in stature. Many consider him to be not only the outstanding German poet of our time but perhaps the major European poet of the later twentieth century. He was born Paul Ancel—Celan was an anagram adopted in 1947, when his earliest poems were published in a Romanian periodical—in Czernowitz, Bukovina. In 1942, his parents were...
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