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Paul Celan ( / ˈsɛlæn /; [1] German: [ˈtseːlaːn] ), born Paul Antschel, (23 November 1920 – c. 20 April 1970) was a Romanian-born French poet, Holocaust survivor, and literary translator.
Paul Celan (born Nov. 23, 1920, Cernăuți, Rom. [now Chernovtsy, Ukraine]—died May 1, 1970, Paris, Fr.) was a poet who, though he never lived in Germany, gave its post-World War II literature one of its most powerful and regenerative voices.
Oct 10, 2022 · Paul Celan was born Paul Antschel in Czernovitz, Romania, to a German-speaking Jewish family. His surname was later spelled Ancel, and he eventually adopted the anagram Celan as his pen name. In 1938 Celan went to Paris to study medicine, but returned to Romania before the outbreak of World War II.
Paul Celan was a Romanian-born, German-language poet whose work remains essential for its unrelenting engagement with themes of loss, language, and memory in the wake of the Holocaust.
Paul Celan - Paul Antschel, who wrote under the pseudonym Paul Celan, was born in Czernovitz (now, Chernivtsi, Ukraine) on November 23, 1920. The son of German-speaking Jews, Celan grew up speaking several languages, including Romanian, Russian, and French.
From Memory Rose into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020) by Paul Celan, translated by Pierre Joris. Used with the permission of the translator. Death Fugue - Black milk of morning we drink you evenings.
Jan 15, 2020 · If the Romanian-born poet Paul Celan were a compass point, he would be north. He has long represented a kind of absolute of what poetry is capable of, and stands as an exemplary figure for other poets, many of whom have incorporated aspects of his work into their own.
Nov 23, 2020 · Poet of the Impossible: Paul Celan at 100. Among the most innovative poets of European modernism, he forged a new path for poetry after the terrors of the twentieth century.
From Memory Rose into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020) by Paul Celan, translated by Pierre Joris. Used with the permission of the translator.
History. Paul Celan, Europe's most compelling postwar poet, was aGerman-speaking, East European Jew. His writing exposes andillumines the wounds that Nazi destructi...
