Poems of Paul Celan (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Paul Antschel
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Love or romance, Nature, World War II, Jews or Jewish life, Faith, Nazism or Nazis, Germany or German people, Holocaust, Jewish
Paul Celan’s experiences as a German-Romanian Jew during World War II form the basis for his spare, devastating poems. Michael Hamburger’s English versions follow all the subtleties of the German originals, and, in the later poems, which are rich in neologisms and multiple meanings, Hamburger brings sharp insight as well as tremendous verbal flexibility to his translations. Hamburger’s prefatory critical essay gives a clear basic introduction to Celan’s work as well as illustrating some of the problems of translating it. This volume prints both the original German and the...
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