Celan Paul - Correspondence - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Paul Celan (1920 - 70) is one of the best - known German poets of the Holocaust; many of his poems admired for their spare precise diction deal directly with its stark themes. Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926 - 73) is recognized as one of post - World War II German literature's most important novelists poets and playwrights. It seems only appropriate that these two contemporaries and masters of language were at one time lovers and they shared a lengthy artful and passionate correspondence. Collected here for the first time in English are their letters written between 1948 and 1961. Their correspondence forms a moving testimony of the discourse of love in the age after Auschwitz with all the symptomatic disturbances and crises caused by their conflicting backgrounds and their hard - to - reconcile designs for living - as a woman as a man as writers. In addition to the almost 200 letters the volume includes an important exchange between Bachmann and Gisele Celan - Lestrange who married Celan in 1951, as well as the letters between Paul Celan and Swiss writer Max Frisch. " Scarcely more breathlessly and desperately can two lovers ever have struggled for words. Little known among German literary historians the relationship between these two poets amounts to one of the most dramatic and momentous occurrences in German literature." - FAZ on the German edition
Title: Correspondence
Author(s): Celan Paul
Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
Barcode: 9780857426420
Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Date: 11/15/2019
Series: The German List
Category: Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets