Paul Celan Today by Eskin, Michael -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page Copyright Contents A Note on Translations Introduction

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Paul Celan’s Bukovina-Meridians

I Celan’s Bukovina: A world of yesterday

An exceptional place The Bukovina: Historical and cultural aspects (1774 – 1919) Celan’s Czernowitz in the roaring 1920s Paul Antschel’s world of people and books In Soviet Czernowitz (1940 – 1941) During the Holocaust (1941 – 1944) In Soviet Czernowitz again

II Other ‘meridians’

Translation as cultural mediation Celan’s multilingual German ‘Roots in the German-Jewish symbiosis’ versus ‘roots in the air’

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Translating in a ‘Wholly Other’ German. ‘Ricercar’

Born in translation ‘Fremde Nähe’

The Gestalt of the speaker Ricercar and ‘genuine repetition’

‘Remembering’ translation Notes

Celan in English

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Philosophical readings of Paul Celan in France. Three Steps

Blanchot: Praising and rewriting Celan Lacoue-Labarthe: Poetical experience and its philosophical reading Badiou: Celan at the end of the ‘age of the poets’ Notes

Language, Barred. Paul Celan’s Poetological Reduction

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Breath Turn, Linguistic Turn, Political Activism. Reading Celan’s Poems of 1967

The year 1967 as the apex of Celan’s poetry ‘Linguistic turn’ and political activism in 1967 ‘Denk dir’: Violence, resistance and rescue ‘Todtnauberg’: History and hagiography ‘Du liegst’: Berlin revisited, reenacted Conclusion Notes

Beyond Poetry. Celan’s Red Folder, May 1968

The Red Folder The individual and revolution Kamalatta language The memory of contingence Notes

Paul Celan’s Successors. From Reverence to Transduction

Diffident homage: Stanley Kunitz Self-conscious influence: Araki Yasusada Prose readings: Karl Ove Knausgaard Double influences: Ciaran Carson, Geoffrey Hill and Courtney Druz Conclusion Notes

‘almost | you would | have lived’. Reading Paul Celan in Colombia

Decolonizing Holocaust studies and Celan’s Holocaust legacy What are poets for? Celan and María Mercedes Carranza Palpable presences: Celan and Doris Salcedo Notes

Between Poetry and Prayer. A Kaddish for Paul Celan

From mourning to justice A Kaddish for Paul Celan

In Memoriam Paul Celan

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Celan’s Correspondence and Correspondence with Celan. Transfer Processes of Life

The correspondence The biographical approach The poetical approach Celan’s correspondence with Ingeborg Bachmann Ruth Beckermann’s film Die Geträumten [The Dreamed Ones] about Celan and Bachmann’s correspondence Transfer into music Conclusion Notes

Four Images Memorial Breath ‘Huhediblu’

(One) ‘Huhediblu’ (Sere Noon) (Sooner Nose) (Ross! On!) (Noon-Seer) (Seen, Soon, Or…?) (Noon SOS) (Noose Ore) (En Rose) Notes

We Are All Migrants of Language. A Conversation Paul Celan. A Select Bibliography

Primary Works

Collected Works Translations by Celan Letters English Translations of Celan

Secondary Literature

Contributors Index