Paul Celan (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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Paul Celan’s literary reputation rests exclusively on his poetry. His only piece of prose fiction, if indeed it can be so described, is “Gespräch im Gebirg” (1959), a very short autobiographical story with a religious theme. Celan also wrote an introductory essay for a book containing works by the painter Edgar Jené; this essay, entitled Edgar Jené und der Traum vom Traume, (1948; Edgar Jené and the Dream About the Dream, 1986), is an important early statement of Celan’s aesthetic theory. Another, more oblique, statement of...
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